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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly, and there the greatest heroism has been secretly exercised.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.
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The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
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The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
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The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.
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The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
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The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
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The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
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