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  • Billy Graham As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Brad Feld As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • David Byrne As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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  • David Jenkins As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
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  • Ben Zobrist As I get older, I just need to continue to make sure I'm staying in peak shape and taking care of my body the best I can.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Billy Graham As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bob Rae As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Preface, p. ix
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Barbara Delinsky As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Artur Davis As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Carolyn Kizer As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bayard Taylor As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Anne Hutchinson As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Bernard Barton As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
    Bernard Barton
    English Quaker poet (1784 - )
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  • William Blake As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
    delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
    which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
    I collected some of their Proverbs.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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