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  • Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
    Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Winston Churchill The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Merton The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Ben Wheatley The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Plutarch The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Charles Bukowski The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the ''Watchtower'' itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
    Charles Bukowski
    American writer (1920 - 1994)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..
    Source: Two Essays in Analytical Psychology In CW 7 p. 188
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Branford Marsalis The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bow Wow The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Aaron Copland The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Bertrand Russell The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Oscar Wilde The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boris Kodjoe The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Billy Joel The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • William Shakespeare The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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