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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Stephen Hawking I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
    Speech Macworld Expo in Boston, 1996
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Vikram Seth I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Bob Dylan I think I have a dualistic nature.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Julius Caesar I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Muriel Spark I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • A. A. Milne I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • B. Kevin Turner I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bai Ling I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Bill Hader I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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