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  • Dame Edith Sitwell I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Marcus Aurelius I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bruce Vilanch I have one rave 'New York Times' review framed next to a flop 'Los Angeles Times' review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • E. M. Forster I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • John Irving I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francis Bacon I have rather studied books than men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.''
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Moses Hadas I have read your book and much like it.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lord George Byron I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Hubert Humphrey I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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