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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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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 doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
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Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
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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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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
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Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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