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• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

  Unknown

  Topics in Advice, Friendship

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• I’d rather make music than tour.

  Bob Seger

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

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  Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Topics in Life, Success

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• Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

  Toni Morrison

  Topics in Art

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  But I’d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

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  Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

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• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don’t know what we’re seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

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• I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Things, Pretty, Rather, Really, Instead, Just

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Art, Friendship, Inspirational

  Tags in Survival, Unnecessary, Give, Things, Rather, Value, Philosophy, Those

• And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

  John Sexton

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• For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.

  Daniel Morgan

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  What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

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• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Topics in Nature

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• I’d rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn’t feel right; if it’s not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn’t right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn’t work.

  Blair Underwood

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  Tags in Rather, Said

• I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

  Fred Allen

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  Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

  Alice Sebold

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• I’m a rather decisive type.

  P. J. O'Rourke

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• I’d rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  Florence King

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  Tags in Players, Found, Rather