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• I rather pride myself on knowing when to stand on my dignity and when to sit on it.
• I'd rather go to work than sit outside.
• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
  -- Frederick Dougla...
• Sir, I would rather have my problem than yours.
• I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
• it is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I ha d believed to be true since my earliest youth.
  And since that time, I have bee n convinced that I must once and for all seriously try to rid myself of all the opiniouns which I had formerly accepted, and begin to build anew, if I wanted t o establish any firm and permanent structure for my beliefs....
• Let's all get together and sing pumpkin carols.
• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941...
• Bart: Somehow I gotta convince her I'm a good person!
  All right, I have to sit here and behave no matter what....