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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Why do people care about anything we do? We play in a crappy stadium, in a market that we share with another team, with one of the lowest payrolls in the game. Really, I'm not that interesting.
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Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
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Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Source: Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy -
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
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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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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
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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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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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