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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone."

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist
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"I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest."

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"I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?"

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Willie Nelson Musician, Actor
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"Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The regulations needed to change their status to "food animals" would cripple every aspect of the horse industry as we know it. Plus, it would be wrong."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all."

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