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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Work
Simone Weil

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Past
Simone Weil

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The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.
Right and Rightness
Harry Weinberger

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.
Failure
Gerald. N. Weiskott

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Marriage
Mae West

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Coward and Cowardice
Bishop Westcott

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Books - Reading
Edwin P. Whipple

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Cities and City Life
Walt Whitman

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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Example
Walt Whitman

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Audiences
Walt Whitman

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The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.
Problems
Michael Wickett

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Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Teachers and Teaching
Colleen Wilcox

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Cheerfulness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Sincerity
Oscar Wilde

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
History and Historians
Oscar Wilde

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Disciples
Oscar Wilde

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!
Guests
Oscar Wilde

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Stupidity
Oscar Wilde

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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Plays
Oscar Wilde

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Socializing and Socialism
Oscar Wilde

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Experience is the key to greatness.
Experience
Arthur Williams

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Arts and Artists
Robert Wilson

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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Character
Woodrow T. Wilson

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