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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in mag...
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam. -- Pierre-Paul Broca
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
-- Thomas Jefferson to A. Stuart, 1791...
I would rather be Multi-Tasking!
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarified to nothing by the pump of unbelief
in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. -- Richte...
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
-- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
I would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
There was a time when I was very comfortable being part of the darkness because I didn't understand the light....
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick...
I would rather see starlight than streetlights.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Letter to Matthew Smith...

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