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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Action
Alfred North Whitehead

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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Language
Benjamin Lee Whorf

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Memory
Oscar Wilde

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
Murder
Oscar Wilde

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Age and Aging
Oscar Wilde

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
Action
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Misfortunes
Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
Animals
Thornton Wilder

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If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.
Selfishness
Mike Willesee

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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
Jokes and Jokers
Carey Williams

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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
Gossip
Earl Wilson

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Parents and Parenting
Edward, Duke of Windsor

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When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Competition
Katarina Witt

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
Prayer
David J. Wolpe

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
Childhood
William Wordsworth

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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.
Working Class
Neville Kenneth Wran

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The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.
Crowds
Mychal Wynn

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Love
Douglas Yates

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
William Butler Yeats

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Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
Communism and Socialism
Boris Yeltsin

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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
Thoughts and Thinking
Eva Young

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If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.
Effort
Zig Ziglar

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun