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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
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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.
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I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852) -
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
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I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
Individual Liberty -
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
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