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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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Western civilization is precious not because it is universal but because it is unique.
Source: Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 1996 28-46 -
Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.
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What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
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What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218 -
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
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