walking is man's best medicine
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war amounts to shedding blood in the search for peace, while peace is a continuation of combat without shedding blood
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war is all about the massacre of men who don't know each other, for the benefit of men who know each other but will not massacre each other
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war is delightful to those who have had no experience of it
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war is God's way of teaching Americans geography - Ambrose Bierce
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war is the most common form of modern terrorism
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warning: Health Authorities can be harmful
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watch your thoughts... they become your words. Watch your words... they become your actions. Watch your actions... they become your habits. Watch your habits... they become your character. Watch your character... it becomes your destiny (Frank Outlaw)
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water talks unceasingly but never repeats itself
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we all have a common origin: we are all offspring of the evolution of the universe and the stars, and so true brothers and sisters
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we all have to obey laws, but a lawyer is needed to understand them
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we and everything else are, after all, just words
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we are all amateurs, life is too short for us to be anything else - Charlie Chaplin
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we are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to apply it
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we are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts - Harold Nicolson
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we are all obliged to keep some of our little eccentricities in order to tolerate reality
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we are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to - Graham Greene
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we are all very ignorant, but not all ignorant of the same things - Albert Einstein
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we are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself - Gregory Bateson
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we are on a train travelling at three hundred kilometres per hour, we don't know where it's taking us and, what is more, we have realized there is no driver
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we are our own memory, we are that chimerical museum of changing shapes, that heap of broken mirrors
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we are such stuff as dreams are made on - William Shakespeare
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we are what we do to change what we are
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we are what we eat
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we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be - Kurt Vonnegut
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we are what we repeatedly do
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we believe only in what we see, so since the advent of television we believe in everything
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we believe that we master words, but it is words that master us
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we believe we are a real country, but the truth is we are little more than a landscape
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we can always stop ourselves on the way up, but never on the way down
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we can do nothing worse to a person than busy ourselves exclusively with him
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we can either overcome opposing ideas through discussion, or we have to let them be aired/heard. It is not possible to overcome such ideas by force as this prevents free development of our intelligence
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we can invent only with memory
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we cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain - Alan Watts
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we can't legalize drug trafficking because there is just too much money in it - Hillary Clinton
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we discern a flavor in our days only when we dodge the obligation to have a destiny
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we do not remember days, we remember moments
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we don't know what's happening to us - that's what's happening to us
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we don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish - John Culkin
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we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are - Anaïs Nin
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we forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone
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we hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
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we have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others
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we have been taught to believe that what is beautiful need not be useful and what is useful cannot be beautiful. I want to show that what is useful can also be beautiful - Mahatma Gandhi
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we have by now become what we fought against when we were twenty-year-olds
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we have certainly been quick to forget the time when we were the emigrants
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we have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly
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we have globalised the circus but not bread
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we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another - Jonathan Swift
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we have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it - George Bernard Shaw
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we have nothing to fear but fear itself - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language
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we have the best Congress money can buy - Will Rogers
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we have to fight against language to prevent the imposition of its formulae, clichés and set phrases, everything that typifies a poor writer
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we inhabit a language rather than a country
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we know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases
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we know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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we know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning - George Steiner
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we lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves
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we live in a dangerous age. Humans control nature before they have learned to control themselves - Albert Schweitzer
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we look forward to the day when we can say to our dead men and women just this: we haven't surrendered, we haven't given up, we haven't sold out
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we love life not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving
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we make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give - Winston Churchill
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we must be modest and at the same time realise that others are inferior to us - Oscar Wilde
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we must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic - Winston Churchill
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we must first fight the mafia that is in each of us; we are the mafia
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we must make way for the new generations for if we do not, they will impose themselves anyway
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we must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means (Martin Luther King)
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we need to get back to the meaning of words, and that's essentially what a writer's work is, to help clean up the dictionary
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we only have the happiness we have given
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we only hear questions that we are able to answer
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we should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes - Henry David Thoreau
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we should read, not in order to forget ourselves and our daily lives, but on the contrary, in order to gain a firmer, more conscious, more mature grip on our own lives
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we should think more of doing well than feeling well, then we would end up feeling better
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we still haven't learned that real cultural growth only comes with enjoyment, passion and laughter
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we work to earn our leisure
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we would often be ashamed of our most well-intentioned actions if others could see what motivated them
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western science has managed only to advance from the simple to the complex, by way of the ineffectual
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we're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! - Tennessee Williams
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we're born princes and the civilizing process turns us into frogs (Eric Berne)
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what a pity drinking water is not a sin - how enjoyable it would be!
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what a terrible time than where idiots are leading the blind - William Shakespeare
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what frightens me most is the winter of memory
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what gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so - Mark Twain
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what has always made the State a hell on earth has been precisely mankind's attempt to turn it into a paradise
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what I regret about the follies of youth is not having committed them but not being able to do so again
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what I want is for everything to be round without, so to speak, a beginning or end of the figure anywhere, so that it makes one, lifelike harmonious whole
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what is art? Prostitution
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what is food to one, is bitter poison to others
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what is in the heart of the sober man is on the tongue of the drunken man
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what is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice
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what is Man, that he should make plans?
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what is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after - Ernest Hemingway
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what is past is prologue (William Shakespeare)
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what is pleasure if not an extraordinarily sweet sorrow
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what is robbing a bank compared to founding a bank?
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what is the real world if not the dream that everyone dreams, the dream common to all?
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what luck for rulers that men don't think
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what makes this a terrible world is that we strive with the same passion in seeking to be happy and in preventing others from being so
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what matters is not that which one says, but that which does not need to be said
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what matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it (Ezra Pound)
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what really counts in life is done free
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what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly
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what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly - Richard Bach
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what we call 'progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance - Havelock Ellis
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what we have in common is that we are all different from each other
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what we think about death is important only for what death has us think about life
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what will be exhausted first - air or oil?
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what would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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what you think is the summit is only a step up
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what, a Professional Register of Journalists! Just an idea propagated by pedants, bogus professors, would-be hacks, and people who are trying to prevent others from thinking for themselves. Such a register is a laughable non-starter and is immoral since it aims to put a limit on what has no limits and indeed shouldn't have any, and is inclined to restricting the free expression of the mind
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whatever I don't know, I learnt at school
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whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult - Charlotte Whitton
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whatever you want to say, there is only one noun to express it, one verb to animate it and one adjective to qualify it
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what's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: to be himself
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what's in the writing of a book? Reading it is the hard bit
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what's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system - Bertrand Russell
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when a banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is
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when a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong - Arthur C. Clarke
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when a government depends on bankers for money, they and not the heads of government control matters. The hand that gives holds sway over the hand that receives. Money has no homeland and financiers have no patriotism or decency - their only objective is gain
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when a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her
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when a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity (George Bernard Shaw)
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when a man, sleeping and motionless in bed, is dreaming of something, what is more real - he as a conscious being or the dream itself?
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when a people no longer dares to defend its language, it is ripe for slavery
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when a person claims to know what happiness is, one can sense that person has lost it
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when a person reads it is an exercise in self-examination. A writer's work amounts only to providing the reader with a means of seeing within himself what he might not otherwise be able to discern
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when a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him - Jonathan Swift
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when childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay - Brian Aldiss
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when choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before - Mae West
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when Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word 'reform' - Roscoe Conkling
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when God is silent, you can make him say anything you want
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when I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor have nothing to eat, they called me a communist
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when I grow up, I want to be a little boy - Joseph Heller
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when I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough (H.L. Mencken)
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when I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function
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when I see Berlusconi and the other shorty it makes me want to opt out of the human race
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when I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it - Clarence Darrow
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when I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not - Mark Twain
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when I'm dead nobody will weep for me, and no earth will cover me as I am the very wind of freedom
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when man is no longer cold, hungry or afraid, he is dissatisfied
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when people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other - Eric Hoffer
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when the brain develops in the mother's womb, it is empty of ideas
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when the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers - Oscar Wilde
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when the language is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence - W. H. Auden
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when the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible - Jomo Kenyatta
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when the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything - Arnold Lobel
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when there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst - H. Allen Smith
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when things go wrong don't go with them - Elvis Presley
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when two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary - William Wrigley Jr.
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when two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part - George Bernard Shaw
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when two personalities meet it is as if two chemicals are coming into contact: if there is any reaction at all, both of them undergo some transformation
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when virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed
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when we are ill we realise that we do not exist alone but chained to a different domain, from which we are separated by an abyss, which doesn't know us and by which it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body
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when we say 'think', we mean think about death
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when will UNESCO get around to naming the planet a Patrimony for Humanity?
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when you desire something, the entire universe conspires to realize your wish
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when you destroy monuments, spare the pedestals. A use can always be found for them
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when you fall asleep, you forget yourself. And when you wake up, you remember yourself
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when you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to stop and reconsider - Mark Twain
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when you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet
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when you look deep into the eyes of another person, you are forced to look at yourself
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when you’re at peace with yourself, travelling means you’re somewhere else that’s not that far away
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whenever a particular freedom is under discussion, it is freedom in general that is under discussion
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whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto it is worse when executed by two persons - and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein - George Washington
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whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong - Oscar Wilde
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whenever you teach, teach your hearers to doubt whatever you teach
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where all men think alike, no one thinks very much - Walter Lippmann
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where are you going, Ivan? I'm going to Minsk. You lie, Ivan! You tell me you're going to Minsk to make me believe you're going to Moscow, but you're really going to Minsk. You lie, Ivan!
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where it is well with me, there is my country
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where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe - Thomas Jefferson
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where the sword of the law cannot reach, there reaches the lash of satire
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where there is much light, the shadow is deep
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where there is no humour there is no humanity; where there is no humour there is the concentration camp
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whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
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which clones more, genetics or TV?
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while I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die
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while there's death, there's hope
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while you have a thing it can be taken from you. But when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It will be yours then forever - James Joyce
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who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
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who fights can lose. Who doesn't fight has already lost
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who is the guiltiest of these two who misbehave; she who sins for pay, or he who pays for sinning?
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who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn't got in the way
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who, being loved, is poor? - Oscar Wilde
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whoever increases wisdom also increases suffering
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whoever is not capable of love is even more unhappy than he who is loved by nobody
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whoever looks at his own failings fails to see those in others
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whoever receives more receives from someone else; he is no greater or better than someone else: he has only greater responsibilities. He must serve even more. Live to serve
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whosoever wants to travel towards the stars should not look for company
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why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance? - Holbrook Jackson
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why do we generally avoid solitude? Because few of us are good company to ourselves
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why do we kill people who have killed other people? To tell other people that killing is wrong? - Norman Mailer
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why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life - Charles Frohman
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why pay money to have your family tree traced. Go into politics and your opponents will do it for you - Anonymous
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why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? - Bertrand Russell
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why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? - Groucho Marx
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will Europe become what, in reality, it is, that is a little promontory on the continent of Asia? Or will it remain what it seems, that is the elite part of the terrestrial world, the pearl of the sphere, the brain of a vast body?
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wine is a grave danger to the (mental) health of someone who does not drink it
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wisdom has less to do with destroying idols than in never creating them in the first place
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wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world
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witches ceased to exist when we stopped burning them
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without having known misery it is impossible to appreciate luxury - Charlie Chaplin
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without money and lacking time, imagination is a mere fleeting dream that cannot be transformed into an event
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women - they are attracted by the slightest thing and a compliment makes them hurry away
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women are so hypocritical that all children firmly believe that their own mother was a saint
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women are the owners of a planet that is ruled by men - Marilyn Monroe
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women do what they say one hundred per cent, whereas men stop at fifty per cent
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women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects - Oscar Wilde
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women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them
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women take the shape of the dream that embraces them
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word makes men free. Whoever cannot express himself is a slave
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words are all we have (Samuel Beckett)
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words are important if they are few
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words are like money, one is worth as much as many and many are not worth as much as one
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words are not created by academics in universities and suchlike, rather it is the man in the street who does so. Dictionary compilers almost always recognise them too late and embalm them in alphabetical order, in many cases when they have lost their original meaning
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words don't always agree with the heart
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words take on the value that the listener attributes to them
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words that really become popular impoverish a language
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work distances us from three great evils: tedium, vice and need
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work is less boring than play
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work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do (Oscar Wilde)
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work makes for a shorter day and a longer life
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writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered
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writing is a way of talking without being interrupted
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writing is also made difficult by the illiteracy of others
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writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money
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writing poetry is like making love: one will never know if one's joy is shared
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