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  • Billy Gardell 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.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Socrates Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bill Hicks Where have I been? I've been on my flying saucer tour. Which means like flying saucers I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately...no one doubts my existence.
    Source: Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William James Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Jane Austen Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Victor Hugo Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Socrates Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Eric Butterworth Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Albert Camus Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alice Walker Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bunker Roy Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Victoria Billings Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Basil Bunting Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Burton Richter While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Burton Richter While a lab director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. I learned this early in my career while I was leading the construction of the SPEAR facility.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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