"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."

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Source : Statement to the envoy of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, January 26, 1563.

Elizabeth I

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“What we said publicly is that we know that Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons, he's used them; we know about his biological weapons programs; and in the nuclear equation, left to his own devices, with no fissile material, by the end of the decade, he'll have a nuclear weapon. But if fissile material is provided to Saddam Hussein, he'll have a nuclear weapon within a year, so I'd say the year is the outside timetable.”
“I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.”
“Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.”
“Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.”
“Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.”
“To think of losing is to lose already.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.”
“Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.”

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