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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

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We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

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For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

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We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them. ↗

— Grover Norquist

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I'm a rather decisive type. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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