Quotes with would-be

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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.
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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.
    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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