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  • William S. Gilbert I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Angelina Grimke 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)
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  • Ajay Naidu I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard and got in.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Jim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Locke I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
    Gaskell - The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870) p.285
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Horace Walpole I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Lord George Byron I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Art Spiegelman I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Fidel Castro I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Aaliyah I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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