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“Some people do better on their own. I don't.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: soap, in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.”
Source : Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.
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“If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?”
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“I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.”
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“My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.”
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“Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.”
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“Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.”
Source : Beaumont v. Greathead, 3 D. & L. 636, 1846.
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“Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”