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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
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With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
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With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
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With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
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With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
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With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
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With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.
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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
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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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