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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
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With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
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With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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