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  • Martin Luther I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
    Bryan Brown
     
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Madonna I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals…
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jean Rostand I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Lord George Byron I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Atom Egoyan I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • T. S. Eliot I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Langston Hughes I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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