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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali I would rather clean than beg.
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
    ― John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Walt Disney I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
    ― Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Alexander the Great I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
    ― Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • R. A. Torrey I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
    ― R. A. Torrey
    American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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  • Edward Vernon Rickenbacker I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
    ― Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
    American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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  • Gerry Spence I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
    ― Gerry Spence
     
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  • Lord George Byron I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
    ― Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Twain I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Harry S. Truman I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
    ― Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
    ― Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Albert Camus I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
    ― Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Woodrow Wilson I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
    ― Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • W. M. Thackeray I would rather make my name than inherit it.
    ― W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Plato I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
    Source: Phaedrus
    ― Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Albert Speer I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.
    ― Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Don Marquis I would rather start a family than finish one.
    ― Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Edward Dahlberg I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
    ― Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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