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  • Angela Merkel I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Anne Campbell I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I have no advice to give to young actors. To young, struggling actresses, my advice is to keep struggling. If you struggle long enough, you will never get in trouble and if you never get in trouble, you will never be much of an actress.
    Variety, June 1941
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Emily Brontë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • John Irving I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • William Butler Yeats I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bruce Chatwin I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • George W. Bush I hear you, the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
    The Telegraph, 15 september 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Andy Rooney I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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