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  • Charles Lamb 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.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Samuel Johnson Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Bragg Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Huntington Western civilization is precious not because it is universal but because it is unique.
    Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 1996 28-46
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barry Pepper Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Barton What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stokely Carmichael What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Robert M. Lindner What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Blaise Pascal What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Dan Quayle What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Alan Cohen What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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