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There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Author:
Xun Zi
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Author:
Xun Zi
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Author:
Zhuangzi
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.
Author:
Jason Zebehazy
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Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
Author:
Michael Zaslow
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
Author:
Giuseppe Zangara
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A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
Author:
Vash Young
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Author:
Owen Young
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Author:
Owen Young
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I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Author:
Neil Young
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
Author:
Loretta Young
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
Author:
Edward Young
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Author:
Edward Young
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Author:
Edward Young
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Author:
Edward Young
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Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.
Author:
Cy Young
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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
Author:
Brigham Young
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A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
Author:
Brigham Young
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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Author:
Arthur Young
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
Author:
Arthur Young
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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
Author:
Angus Young
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The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Man as a pure animal does not exist.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Author:
Anzia Yezierska
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
Author:
Anzia Yezierska
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
Author:
Donnie Yen
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Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
Author:
Donnie Yen
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A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
Author:
William Yeats
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
Author:
William Yeats
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Author:
William Yeats
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Author:
William Yeats
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
Author:
William Yeats
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
Author:
William Yeats
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Author:
William Yeats
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If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Author:
Isoroku Yamamoto
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
Author:
Lalu Yadav
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
Author:
Gao Xingjian
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
Author:
Xenophanes
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
Author:
Ed Wynn
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Author:
Tammy Wynette
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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Author:
Tammy Wynette
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.
Author:
Zakk Wylde
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In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
Author:
John Wycliffe
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
Author:
William Wycherley
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Author:
William Wycherley
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
Author:
Joe Wurzelbacher
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I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Author:
Wilbur Wright
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Author:
Steven Wright
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Author:
Frank Wright
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Author:
Frank Wright
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Author:
Frank Wright
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
Author:
Francis Wright
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Man has been adjudged a social animal.
Author:
Francis Wright
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?
Author:
Fay Wray
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An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
Author:
Henry Wotton
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I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
Author:
Mary Wortley
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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The child is father of the man.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Author:
William Wordsworth
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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
Author:
John Woolman
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About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.
Author:
John Woolman
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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Author:
Leonard Woolf
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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Author:
Joanne Woodward
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If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Author:
James Woods
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Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Author:
John Wooden
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Author:
John Wooden
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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Author:
John Wooden
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I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.
Author:
George Woodcock
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
Author:
Ron Wood
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.
Author:
Fernando Wood
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That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.
Author:
Wayne Wonder
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Author:
Stevie Wonder
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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.
Author:
P. Wolfson
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Author:
P. Wodehouse
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Author:
Katarina Witt
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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
Author:
John Wise
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
Author:
John Wise
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
Author:
John Wise
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The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
Author:
Steve Winwood
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I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
Author:
Kathleen Winsor
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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
Author:
Sloan Wilson
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Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
Author:
Rainn Wilson
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I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
Author:
Peta Wilson
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Author:
Harold Wilson
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.
Author:
Douglas Wilson
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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Author:
Colin Wilson
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A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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Man's fate in battle is worked out before the war begins.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
Author:
Angus Wilson
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Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.
Author:
John Wilmot
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You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.
Author:
William Wills
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I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
Author:
Chill Wills
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Violence - look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who's kidding who?
Author:
Bruce Willis
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
Author:
Ted Williams
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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.
Author:
Ted Williams
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Author:
Ted Williams
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Author:
Ted Williams
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A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Author:
Roy Williams
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No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.
Author:
Roger Williams
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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Author:
Robin Williams
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It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.
Author:
Robbie Williams
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I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!
Author:
Robbie Williams
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I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
Author:
Robbie Williams
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The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
Author:
Kit Williams
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Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.
Author:
Esther Williams
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Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
Author:
Bill Williams
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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
Author:
Bert Williams
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
Author:
Bert Williams
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Author:
Bern Williams
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
Author:
Laura Wilder
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
Author:
William Wilberforce
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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
Author:
Elie Wiesel
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Man blindly works the will of fate.
Author:
Christoph Wieland
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It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
Author:
Anna Wickham
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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Author:
Charlotte Whitton
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When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
Author:
John Whittier
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
Author:
Eli Whitney
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.
Author:
Mary Whitehouse
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Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
Author:
George Whitefield
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To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
Author:
William White
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
Author:
William White
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
Author:
Theodore White
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The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
Author:
Pearl White
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Author:
Edmund White
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
Author:
E. White
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
Author:
E. White
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Author:
E. White
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Author:
E. White
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
Author:
Forest Whitaker
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
Author:
James Whistler
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Author:
Richard Whately
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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Author:
Richard Whately
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The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Author:
Richard Whately
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Author:
Rebecca West
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Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
Author:
Rebecca West
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Author:
Morris West
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You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Author:
Morris West
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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Author:
Morris West
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Author:
Mae West
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Author:
Mae West
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Author:
Mae West
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Author:
Mae West
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Author:
Mae West
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
Author:
Mae West
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A hard man is good to find.
Author:
Mae West
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Author:
Mae West
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
Author:
Mae West
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A man's kiss is his signature.
Author:
Mae West
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Author:
Mae West
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
Author:
Mae West
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Author:
Mae West
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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?
Author:
Jessamyn West
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Beware of a man with manners.
Author:
Eudora Welty
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
Author:
Ida Wells
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Author:
H. Wells
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
Author:
H. Wells
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Author:
H. Wells
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
Author:
H. Wells
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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Author:
Bob Wells
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Author:
Orson Welles
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
Author:
Ezer Weizman
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Author:
Otto Weininger
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I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.
Author:
George Weinberg
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The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Author:
Simone Weil
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God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
Author:
Frank Wedekind
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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Author:
Noah Webster
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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
Author:
John Webster
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All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
Author:
John Webster
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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Author:
John Webster
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When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
Author:
John Webster
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
Author:
Daniel Webster
