Migues de Unamuno
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.
Unknown
People who notice everything but remain silent are to be feared.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
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In the silence and the solitude, we hear no more than the essential.
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Whatever you do, don’t get stuck on the one thing that ruins your day. Smile and be grateful. Life is too short to waste on negativity.
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I’ve found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.
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A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
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Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.
– Unknown, but sometimes incorrectly attributed to George Orwell
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When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.
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When reading, we don’t fall in love with characters’ appearances. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls.
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Art is how we decorate space. Music is how we decorate time.
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It is hard to give unlimited power to limited minds.
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Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
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The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find.
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How do you go back to being strangers with someone who has seen your soul.
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If you’re helping someone and expecting something in return, you’re doing business not kindness.
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People wear masks to see who cares enough to see through it. I built a wall around me to see who would be brave enough to climb it.
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How do we change the world? One act of random kindness at a time.
– from the movie, Evan Almighty
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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
– Unknown. This quote is falsely attributed to William Shakespeare, however it does not appear in his works and no accurate source has been identified.
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Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.
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Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
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The people that are there with you during your darkest nights, are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.
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We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man; but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
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Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
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To forgive takes love. To forget takes strength.
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A wise physician said, ‘The best medicine for humans is love’. Someone asked, ‘What if it doesn’t work?’ He smiled and answered, ‘Increase the dose’.
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Accept the fact that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue!
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Legend says when you can’t sleep at night, it’s because you’re awake in someone else’s dream.
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Impossible isn’t something that can’t be done. It’s just something that hasn’t been done before.
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Don’t annoy the writer. They may put you in a book and kill you.
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When you focus on problems, you’ll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you’ll have more opportunities.
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When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest.
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Never ignore someone who cares for you, because someday you’ll realise you’ve lost a diamond while you were busy collecting stones.
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You can tell a lot about a man by his enemies.
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Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because its stormy now doesn’t mean that you aren’t headed for sunshine.
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Pessimist : A person who says that O is the last letter of ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY
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Today’s rooster, is tomorrow’s feather duster.
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‘full as a goog‘
Australian slang for having eaten too much or being drunk.
If you’re wondering what a ‘goog’ is, it is slang for ‘googy egg’ or ‘egg’.
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Today’s metaphor is in commemoration of Queensland’s 7th consecutive State of Origin Series victory as scientists discover the God Particle … and it’s in Queensland!
‘It’s like climbing a mountain, and for the first time being able to see the view’ – a scientist describing the discovery of the Higgs Boson, or God Particle, 4 June 2012.
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‘he’s got a roo loose in the top paddock’.
– Aussie saying
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‘After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box’
Italian proverb.
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‘Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks’.
Kris Valloton
You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.
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In order to change history, you have to step out of the crowd.
Abigail Van Buren
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Vincent Van Gogh
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
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One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
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Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
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The best way to know life, is to love many things.
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What is done in love, is done well.
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I’d rather die of passion than of boredom.
Rembrandt Van Rijn
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
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Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Ken Venturi
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
Sid Vicious
I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.
Gore Vidal
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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‘Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith‘.
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‘It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster’.
Viking proverb
Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.
Pancho Villa
Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Virgil
Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
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Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Voltaire
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
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The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
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I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
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When it comes to money, everyone is of the same religion.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to
tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote
themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put
shackles upon sleeping men.
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
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‘It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster’.
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Writing is the painting of the voice.
William of Ockham
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I call architecture frozen music.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.
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‘Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not. So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.’ – from ‘Breakfast of Champions’.
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Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.
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“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.”
(a koan from ‘Cat’s Cradle‘)
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When we don’t know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
Friedrich von Schiller
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skills to do difficult things easily.
Erich von Stroheim
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
Marilyn vos Savant
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Giorgio Visari
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Tom Waits
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Alice Walker
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
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‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
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‘Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence’.
Jim Wallis
Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
Irving Wallace
To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
William Wallace
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
J. Donald Walters
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Tim Walz
You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.
William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
Andy Warhol
Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
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I am a deeply superficial person.
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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
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My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat – or in film’s case ‘run on’ – manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.
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Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
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Being born is like being kidnapped. Then sold into slavery.
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I’m bored with that line. I never use it any more. My new line is, “in 15 minutes everybody will be famous” .
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I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
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Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
Roger Waters
I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political. I think happiness resides where we understand someone else’s point of view and needs. Happiness resides where we are not lost in the solitary dream.
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This is how you control your domestic population – by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.
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One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.
– Roger Waters, Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Ummagumma
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Dark Side of the Moon was an expression of political, philosophical, humanitarian empathy that was desperate to get out.
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Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
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‘… But it was only a fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.’
– from the song ‘Hey You‘, from Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall‘
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‘Did you see the frightened ones?
Did you hear the falling bombs?
Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the
promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue
sky?‘
– from the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky‘, from Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall‘
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We don’t need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
– ‘Another Brick in the Wall Part 2’, The Wall.
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‘And when they found our shadows
Grouped ’round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then, the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death’
– from ‘Amused to death’.
Michael P. Watson
You can never win an argument with a negative person. The only hear what suits them and listen only to respond.
H.G. Wells
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
Irvine Welsh
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That’s what makes it what it is.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
John Wesley
Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.
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Condemn no man for not thinking as you think: let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgement since every man must give an account of himself before God.
Adam West
I have no patience with dinosaurs.
Cornel West
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
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You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.
Margaret Wheatley
It’s not our differences that divide us. It’s our judgements about each other that do. Curiosity and good listening bring us back together.
E.B. White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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‘Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it’.
Tyler Kent White
Never apologise for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
Bradley Whitford
Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Gough Whitlam
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
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‘Well may we say “God save the Queen”, because nothing will save the Governor-General! The Proclamation which you have just heard read by the Governor-General’s Official Secretary was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will undoubtedly go down in Australian history from Remembrance Day 1975 as Kerr’s cur’.
– Gough Whitlam, 11 November 1975, responding to being sacked as Prime Minister by Governor-General Kerr and replaced by Opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser.
Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Elie Wiesel
‘There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest’.
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Help one another. It is the only way to survive.
William Wilberforce
Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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If we’re always guided by other people’s thoughts, what’s the point in having our own?
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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.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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The books that the world call immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’
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Arguments are to be avoided – they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Anthony Douglas Williams
Don’t let your age control your life… let your life control your age.
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A kind soul is in constant bloom.
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Imagine what seven billion humans could achieve if we all loved and respected each other. Imagine.
Tristan Wilds
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’
Robin Williams
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.
Marianne Williamson
Ego says, ‘Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace’. Spirit says, ‘Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place’.
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We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
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You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
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Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
Dave Willis
Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.
Tony Wilson
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
Woodrow Wilson
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Amy Winehouse
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Oprah Winfrey
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Walter Wink
Evil can be oppressed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.
Jeanette Winterson
Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.
Alicia Witt
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
Stevie Wonder
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
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Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
Don’t be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you’re working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.
William Wordsworth
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Francis Wright
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Steven Wright
What’s another word for Thesaurus?
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If God dropped acid, would he see people?
Billy Wilder
‘He has Van Gogh’s ear for music’.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, novelist (1867-1957), author of ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and others in the ‘Little House’ series.
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.
Shing Xiong
In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took,but how many moments took your breath away.
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
‘Weird’ Al Yankovic
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Neil Young
As you go through life, you’ve got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Malala Yousefzi
I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
Pia Zadora
‘I have a funny name’.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn’t dignified enough to qualify.
Emiliano Zapata
If there is no justice for the people, may there be no peace for the government.
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I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.
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I want to die as a slave to principles, not to men.
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‘It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees’.
Frank Zappa
It was like daylight to a vampire.
(Zappa movie, 2020)
All your children are poor, unfortunate victims of lies you believe. A plague upon your ignorance which keeps the young form the truth they deserve.
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It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
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No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
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Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.
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The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
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You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.
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‘Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe’.
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‘Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read’.
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Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music and music is the best.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Citium Zeno
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Zig Ziglar
You’re not stuck where you are! You can grow, you can change, you can be more than you are.
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Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
William Knowlton Zinsser
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.
Mark Zuckerberg
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
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I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.