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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Arts and Artists
Simone Weil

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Charity
Simone Weil

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
Soul
Simone Weil

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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Simone Weil

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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Impossibility
Weiler

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Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
Dreams
Lord Weinstock

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A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Cynics and Cynicism
Carolyn Wells

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
History and Historians
H.G. Wells

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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
History and Historians
H.G. Wells

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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
Adversity
H.G. Wells

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Our true nationality is mankind.
Race and Racism
H.G. Wells

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A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.
Health
Joan Welsh

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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Reason
Welsh Proverb

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Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
Arrogance
Baron Wessenberg

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.
Love
Mae West

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He is every other inch a gentleman.
Gentlemen
Rebecca West

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The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
Men and Women
Rebecca West

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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.
Purpose
Westminster Confession of Faith

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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Elegance
Vivienne Westwood

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Honesty
Richard Whately

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Farming and Farmers
Elwyn Brooks White

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Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
Illness
Georgia White

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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
Insanity
William Allen White

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Action
Alfred North Whitehead

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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech
Alfred North Whitehead

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