I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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Related Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I received a phone call about 9 p.m., advising me that I was the interim manager. It's always a surp... DON GRAY Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I am not afraid... I was born to do this. JOAN OF ARC I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it t... JOHN LENNON I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm cons... MICHAEL MOORE I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out o... RACHEL BLOOM I love people. I was born loving people. BETSY PALMER Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. CHARLES KEATING I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... VANILLA ICE I was born in August, no July, 1908. SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era. MALUMA I was born with an evil face. BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule. NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida. CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers. DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television. DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church. CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it ... YELAWOLF Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de... I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru... I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re... I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo... I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then... I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie... I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a... ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish. FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you... ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e... ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy... BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ... ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t... I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ... FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. CHARLES I The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow. ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i... ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen... ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig... I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn. Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words. Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness. That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ELIZABETH I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an... ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do. ELIZABETH I
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