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  • William Shakespeare I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Robert Orben I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Iris Murdoch I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Bailey I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Joe E. Lewis I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • George Orwell I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Hawking I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Maya Angelou I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Brooke Shields I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Meister Eckhart If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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