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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!"

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?' 'So the minstrels say,' said Éomer. 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it."

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves."

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Larry Holmes Boxer
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"The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all."

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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled."

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"Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings."

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