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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Freddie Mercury I always knew I was a star. And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
    Freddie Mercury
    British singer, songwriter and record producer (1946 - 1991)
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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leonard Cohen I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Socrates I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Angela Merkel I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Source: Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Michelle Obama I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
    Michelle Obama
    lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (1964 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jack Handey I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
    Jack Handey
     
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  • Mother Teresa I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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