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What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
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What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
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When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
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Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
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Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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