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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god - the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
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What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
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What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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