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| Your brain can only absorb what your ass can endure. |
P. Dan Wiwchar |
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| Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. |
J. Donald Wlters |
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| No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
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| Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
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| Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves. |
Mary Wollstonecraft |
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| It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal. |
Marvin E. Wolfgang |
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| Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. |
Gene Wolfe |
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| To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self |
Christa Wolf |
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| To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
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| One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen. |
Rabbi David Wolpe |
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| All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. |
Grant Wood |
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| Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does. |
George E. Woodbury |
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| You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims |
Harriet Woods |
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| The world is exactly like you think it is, and that's why. |
John A. Woods |
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| The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. |
Virginia |
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| If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. |
Virginia |
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| Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street. |
Virginia |
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| Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. |
Virginia |
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| On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. |
Virginia |
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| Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. |
Virginia |
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| For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. |
Virginia |
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| One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. |
Virginia |
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| One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. |
Virginia |
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| If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. |
Virginia |
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| The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. |
Virginia |
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| I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. |
Virginia |
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| Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. |
Virginia |
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| Arrange whatever pieces come your way. |
Virginia |
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| These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. |
Virginia |
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| If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. |
Virginia |
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| It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. |
Virginia |
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| There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. |
Alexander Woollcott |
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| All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. |
Alexander Woollcott |
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| I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. |
Alexander Woollcott |
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| Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. |
Joanne Woodward |
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| Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. |
Frank W. Woolworth |
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| An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. |
Sir Henry Wotton |
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| What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be |
Chauncey Wright |
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| Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. |
Herman Wouk |
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| If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now. |
Larry Wright |
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| We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history. |
Louis Booker Wright |
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| All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut. |
Louis Booker Wright |
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| If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know |
Steven Wright |
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| I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters. |
Steven Wright |
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| I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. |
Steven Wright |
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| Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. |
Steven Wright |
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| You can't have everything. Where would you put it |
Steven Wright |
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| A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here. |
Steven Wright |
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| The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go. |
Steven Wright |
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| What's another word for Thesaurus |
Steven Wright |
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| If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it |
Steven Wright |
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| Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. |
Steven Wright |
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| My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. |
Steven Wright |
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| I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. |
Steven Wright |
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| Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. |
Steven Wright |
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| I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. |
Steven Wright |
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| I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. |
Steven Wright |
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| It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. |
Steven Wright |
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| It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. |
Steven Wright |
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| If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer |
Steven Wright |
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| Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you' |
Steven Wright |
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| Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish. |
Steven Wright |
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| There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. |
Steven Wright |
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| When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' |
Steven Wright |
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| If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. |
Orville Wright |
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| Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. |
Saint Francis Xavier |
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| It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. |
Wilbur Wright |
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| I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high. |
Wilbur Wright |
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| A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. |
Woodrow Wyatt |
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| There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole. |
Bill Wulf |
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| When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. |
John Wyndham |
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| Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes. |
Henry M. Wriston |
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| A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future. |
Henry M. Wriston |
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| Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant. |
Henry M. Wriston |
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| The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. |
Rosalyn S. Yalow |
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| What's meant to be will always find a way. |
Trisha Yearwood |
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| Don't ever let anyone steal your dreams. |
Dexter Yager |
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| Sometimes I think we'd be better off blind. |
Lily Yeamans |
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| There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible- that nothing is too good to be true. |
Kobi Yamoda |
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| My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks. |
Y. Yakigawa |
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| By following the concept of 'one country, two systems,' you don't swallow me up nor I you. |
Deng Xiaoping |
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| It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. |
Deng Xiaoping |
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| Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step. |
Deng Xiaoping |
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| Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there. |
Otomo No Yakamochi |
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| To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it-beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
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| Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved |
Anzia Yenerska |
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| The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly. |
Lu Yen |
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