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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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  • Bruce Vilanch As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Barack Obama As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Boris Pasternak As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Thomas à Kempis As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • James Russell Lowell As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Butch Trucks As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Al Oerter As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
    Al Oerter
    American athlete (1936 - 2007)
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