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  • Maya Angelou I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • E. M. Forster I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Stein I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
    Source: E! Online, 12-20-03
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Barbara Walters I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Cormac McCarthy I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
    Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 197
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Luis Bunuel I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Armistead Maupin I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Anne Brontë I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Mark Twain I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious - except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert E. Lee I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • William Shakespeare I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anne Rice I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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