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Moses said to
God, "When I come to the Israelites and
say to them 'The God of your fathers has
sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is
His name?' what shall I say to them?" And
God said said to Moses "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh"
["I Am That I Am"].
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--Exodus 3:14, JPS translation
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I am as
I am and so will I be
But how that I am none knoweth
truly.
Be it evil, be it well, be I
bound, be I free,
I am as I am and so will I
be.
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--Sir Thomas Wyatt,
Song CCXXI (ca. 1555)
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I am not
I, pity the tale of me.
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--Sir Philip Sidney,
Astrophil and
Stella, Sonnet #45
(1582)
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No, I am
that I am, and they that
level
At my abuses reckon up their
own;
I may be straight though they
themselves be bevel.
By their rank thoughts my deeds
must not be shown,
Unless this general evil they
maintain--
All men are bad and in their
badness reign.
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--Shakespeare, Sonnet
# 121 (1609)
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I amsk
what I amsk and that's all what I
amsk.
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