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  • Walter Savage Landor Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Walter Benjamin Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Walter Lippmann Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Billy Al Bengston For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Walter Benjamin Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Walter Winchell Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Great men always pay deference to greater.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Walter Benjamin He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Walter Matthau I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.
    Walter Matthau
     
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
    Walter Chrysler
     
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  • Walter Savage Landor I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Walter Winchell I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Walter Savage Landor I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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