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Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
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Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
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Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
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Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
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Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
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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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