Quotes 2441 till 2460 of 2607.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
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Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
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Whether it be to failure or success; the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
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While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
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While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
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While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
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Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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