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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
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I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 41
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