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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Barry Goldwater I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Amy Winehouse I would say that jazz is my own language.
    Amy Winehouse
    English singer and songwriter (1983 - 2011)
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  • Andrew Jackson I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • George Orwell I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • John Keats I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Amy Tan I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Simone Weil I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • J. G. Ballard I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • William Shakespeare I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Moore I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • John McCain I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the best candidate able to lead the country and defend our political values.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
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  • Baruch Spinoza I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Al Unser I wouldn't mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • David Jenkins I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
    David Jenkins
     
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