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• If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Imagine, Harvard, Asks

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• Let me ask you, when it comes to Obamacare, do you hate Obamacare more than you love your country?

  Thomas Roberts

  Country, Hate, Love You

  "MSNBC Anchor To GOP Rep: 'Do You Hate Obamacare More Than You Love Your Country?'". www.realclearpolitics.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

  James A. Michener

  Book, Writing, Self

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Goodbye, Dream, Thinking

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.

  Mark Pryor

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Is Cotton Putting It Away?" by Ramesh Ponnuru, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2014.

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• Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

  Jimmy Wales

  Girl, People, Wikipedia

  "Answers.com and Wikimedia Foundation to Form New Partnership". Foundation-l mailing list, lists.wikimedia.org. October 23, 2005.

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• Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

  Roger Penrose

  Real, Knowing, People

  "Secrets of the Old One". "The Groks Science Show" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

  David Frye

  Jobs, Responsibility, Differences

  "Richard Nixon: A Fantasy". Album by David Frye, 1973.

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• Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.

  Paul J. Zak

  Oxytocin, People, Giving

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• As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that, if God gave me back my life to be lived over again, I would without one quiver of hesitation lay it on the altar to Christ, that He might use it as before in similar ministries of love, especially amongst those who have never yet heard the Name of Jesus.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Son, Might Use

  "John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides".

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• I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.

  Michael Hedges

  Dream, Guitar, Play

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• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  Barbara Mandrell

  Good Life, Believe, Feet

  "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Ideas, Yellow, Orange

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• Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Religious, Believe, Book

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• I was a heavy heart to carry
  My beloved was weighed down
  My arms around his neck
  My fingers laced to crown.
  I was a heavy heart to carry
  My feet dragged across ground
  And he took me to the river
  Where he slowly let me drown
  My love has concrete feet
  My love's an iron ball
  Wrapped around your ankles
  Over the waterfall

  Florence Welch

  Heart, Iron, Rivers

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• They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Eight, Years

  "My Conversation With Horace Silver". All About Jazz interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 18, 2003.

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• I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

  Luc Besson

  Goal, Would Be, Lucky

  "Luc Besson: Why I couldn't give up making films". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Let me think about the people I care about.

  Ze Frank

  Thinking, People, Care

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• Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Usual, Week, Hours

  E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

  Lara St. John

  Boards, Violin, Laptops

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• And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.

  Vito Fossella

  Cities, Facts, Terrorism

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• Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

  Janet Guthrie

  Race, Car, Males

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• Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.

  Robert Scoble

  People, Periods

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• They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

  Fay Wray

  Down And, Helping, Fingers

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• Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Mountain, Doe

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