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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

By Sir Winston Churchill

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"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1824

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"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."

By C. P. Snow

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"While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities."

By Bernard Weisberger, America Afire

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"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876

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"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"What we play is life."

By Louis Armstrong

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"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."

By Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

By Oscar Wilde, In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson

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"Worries go down better with soup than without."

By Jewish Proverb

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"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."

By Euripides

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"We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic."

By Susan Jeffers

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"What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."

By Shakti Gawain

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"When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time."

By The Work of the Chariot

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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

By Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."

By Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

By Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

By Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

By John Stuart Mill

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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

By Sir Francis Bacon

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