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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
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When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.
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When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
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When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -this is knowledge.
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Whether you voted for him or not, whether you supported the new leaders of Congress or not, they're our president, they're our Congress, they need our prayers, they need our support.
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While I yet live, let me not live in vain.
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Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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