Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 1877.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
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Whether it be to failure or success; the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
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While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
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While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
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While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
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Who, being loved, is poor?
Source: A Woman of No Importance -
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
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Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
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Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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