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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Lewis H. Lapham I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Epicurus I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, Children, you must no make so much noise, that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Annie Dillard I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Ben Jonson I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
    For else it could not be,
    That she,
    Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
    And cast my love behind.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Giuseppe Garibaldi I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
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  • Aaron Eckhart I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Douglas Adams I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Man Ray I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Alain de Botton I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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