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A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
~Aristotle

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Quoted In The Grove:
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
~David Lynch

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The whole point is to live life and be ‒ to use all the colors in the crayon box.
~RuPaul

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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
~Oprah Winfrey

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.
~Olga Tokarczuk

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
~Henry David Thoreau

AfterWords:
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
~Barbara Sher

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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
~Alan B Watts

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example ‒ I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
~Nazim Hikmet

this whole world is a rat race and I’m going no where, with out any goal, isn’t it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don’t know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I’m again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”
~Ramana Pemmaraju

AfterWords:
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
~Charles A Dana

I’ve been over what I’m supposed to say and I’ve got to tell you, it’s pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth? It’s a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It’s a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I’ve been thinking about it, I don’t think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That’s a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder.
~Jeff Melvoin

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
~Alfred North Whitehead

AfterWords:
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.
~Thomas Jefferson

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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
~Stephen Leacock

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
~Austin O’Malley

A half-truth is a whole lie.
~Yiddish proverb

AfterWords:
An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
~Karl Kraus

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
~Victor Hugo (from Les Misérables)

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that’s the whole art and joy of words.
~C S Lewis

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
~Boris Pasternak

AfterWords:
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
~Mary McLeod Bethune

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Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~Leon Battista Alberti

Viewed as a whole, a forest radiates beauty, serenity and safety. Viewed from within, misplaced focus reaps the fabricated chaos of trees.
~Richard Guerry

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
~John Muir

AfterWords:
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
~Albert Camus

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A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don’t walk away ‒ forevermore, he don’t walk away
~John Wayne (in Sands of Iwo Jima)

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here ‒ the Infinite.
~Johann Gottlieb Fichte

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
~George Sand

AfterWords:
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
~Alexander the Great

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
~Akhenaten

Under all those smiles, jokes and laughs is a whole different person…
~Internet meme

I have found little that is ‘good’ about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
~Sigmund Freud

AfterWords:
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best to flower.
~J M Coetzee

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That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.
~Robyn Davidson

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
~Derek Walcott

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong ‒ but you are now a different shape, a different size.
~Glennon Doyle Melton

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‘I love mankind,’ he said, ‘but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.’
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
~Eric Hoffer

You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.
~Matshona Dhliwayo

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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
~C S Lewis

Don’t settle for a star when you can have the whole sky.
~Matshona Dhliwayo

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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
~Émile Durkheim

Oh, I’m a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
~Eddie Bracken

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.
~Elizabeth Henry

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A glass of happiness fills the whole body. (Un verre de bonheur – Remplit tout le corps)
~Charles de Leusse

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
~E F Benson

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
~Aristotle

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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
~Margaret J Wheatley

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely ‒ the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears ‒ when you give your whole attention to it.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
~Susan Sarandon

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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
~Bernard Baruch (financier/statesman)

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
~Goethe

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The whole world is a man’s birthplace.
~Caecilius Statius

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.
~Suzy Kassem

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
~Saul Bellow

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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
~Gustave Flaubert

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
~Author Unknown

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
~Sandra Day O’Connor (USSC, AJ)

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Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread return to sender, addressee unknown. That’s a shame because it’s a whole other world out there‒or in here depending on your point of view.
~Dennis Koenig

Fulfilling your dreams is not a luxury, but a purpose in life. The whole point of imagination is to make dreams real.
~Gordana Biernat

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
~Gian Carlo Menotti (Italian composer)

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15 million? People act like that’s a fortune. To me, it’s peanuts. Do you stop at one peanut? No — you grab a handful, then another, then the whole damn bowl. So why does everyone in this world settle for a single peanut? We possess all the knowledge of the universe — we even know we’re living in a simulation — yet most people waste their lives on small talk, small jobs, and small money. This entire society is built on the religion of one peanut. Stop eating crumbs. Take the bowl.
~Yvonne Padmos (author/actor/activist)

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are easy to get.
~Confucius

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You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.
~Dolly Parton

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.
~Eleanor H Porter (of Pollyanna, unto Dolly Parton)

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
~Immanuel Kant

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
~Horace Walpole

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
~Kalil Gibran

The whole point of getting engrossed in something that interests you, is that you dissolve into it, the more the intensity…the more you become vapor
~Ramana Pemmaraju

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I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, ‘Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?’
~Robert Kennedy, Jr

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
~R Buckminster Fuller

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet ‒ the only one in the whole Milky Way
~Kurt Vonnegut

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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
~Herman Melville

There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.
~Mark Twain

A violent wind does not last for a whole morning…
~Laozi

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Our whole life is solving puzzles.
~Erno Rubik

My whole life is like a musical
~Sarah White

My whole life is simply a revelation.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

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I have always loved to skate, and that is all I wanted to do. Having my whole, entire career taken away from me by somebody else ‒ not losing it myself ‒ I do have blame, but when somebody takes your whole, entire life away from you, and you don’t know what to do, it’s like you’re lost.
~Tonya Harding

The works of present life are more important than the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.
~Dayananda Saraswati

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
~Eugene Delacroix

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Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
~William Shakespeare

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
~Mahatma Gandhi

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
~Abigail Adams

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Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
~George Herbert

Just because I’m not in as much pain as you, doesn’t mean I don’t care. I don’t sit there and drown myself in tears; I don’t let anything get me down. If I sat there and felt sorry for myself, what good would that do? I have my whole life in front of me. There will be more bad things to come, but I am prepared to not let them faze me because it’s a part of life. Bad things happen to everyone, but good things also happen, too. Don’t look back, and don’t look too far ahead.
~Nina Desrochers

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
~Miyamoto Musashi

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Your existence is so tiny.You cannot fight, you cannot conquer. It is impossible to conceive how an individual unit can conquer the whole. And if the whole is purposeless and you are with purpose, you are going to be defeated.
~Osho

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
~Henry David Thoreau

One positive thought can change your life, can change the whole world.
~Amit Ray

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Writing is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
~E L Doctorow

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

You have to eat the first piece of candy Before you can eat the whole bag.
~Author Unknown (Note: this last, a precaution)

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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
~Aristotle

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
~Ida Pauline Rolf

To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
~Adam Grant

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The most decisive actions of our life ‒ I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future ‒ are, more often than not, unconsidered.
~André Gide

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
~Saint Francis de Sales

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
~Cathy Guisewite (cartoonist)

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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~Michelangelo Antonioni

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
~Robert Burns

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
~John Dickey

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Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
~Alan Watts

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
~Edgar Quinet

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I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
~Lady Gaga

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
~Jane Goodall

That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
~Bill Watterson

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Posted From The Grove

You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.
~Chiang Kai-shek

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
~Carl von Clausewitz

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
~Thomas Paine

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Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
~Ellen Key

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
~Arthur Keith

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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~Bernard Law Montgomery

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.
~John Gibbon (Gen, Civil War)

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don’t think there is any point in having wars if that’s how you’re going to behave. It’s pathetic. All this whining!
~Rupert Everett

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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike ‒ I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
~Spiro Agnew

A tower of strength….his name cowed whole provinces while he was yet scores of miles away’.
~James Broun-Ramsay (of Brig Gen John Nicholson, KIA India 1857)

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Anti-Semites (American Jews included) pressure Israel to correct its ego and show the whole world their method of correction.
~Dr Michael Laitman (globalist)

I don’t think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world.
~Moshe Katsav

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The destiny of Russia, the honor of our heroic army, the welfare of the people and the whole future of our dear fatherland demand that the war should be brought to a victorious conclusion whatever the cost.
~Nicholas II of Russia (prior to Allied defeat of Nazi Germany)

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
~Helen Keller

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The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity ‒ that it’s this or maybe that ‒ you have just one large statement; it is this.
~Chinua Achebe

The entire Party, the whole army, and all the people should conduct a vigorous forest restoration campaign to make the mountains of the country thick with forests.
~Kim Jong-un

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology.
~Michel Foucault (Fr philosopher/historian, 1926-1984)

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
~Wilhelm von Humboldt

A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence, if the State claims life, the individual must surrender it… All the worth which the human being possesses… he possesses only through the State.
~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.
~Henry Louis Mencken

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum [the highest good], then the whole structure of society falls down.
~B F Skinner

America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance ‒ and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.
~Ayn Rand

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Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
~Cecil Rhodes

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.
~William Howard Taft (27th Pres, 1909-1913)

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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
~Neville Chamberlain

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
~Pierre Elliott Trudeau

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
~Fidel Castro

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.
~Sukarno (ex-Pres, Indonesia)

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America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do ‒ namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.
~Eleanor Roosevelt (pre-Vietnam/Iraq/Afghanistan/Venezuela/Iran)

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. They are deprived of their independence. Democratic politicians rarely feel they can afford the luxury of telling the whole truth to the people. And since not telling it, though prudent, is uncomfortable, they find it easier if they themselves do not have to hear too often too much of the sour truth. The men under them who report and collect the news come to realize in their turn that it is safer to be wrong before it has become fashionable to be right.
~Walter Lippmann

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don’t, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
~Vernon A Walters (ex-Army officer, diplomat, CIA chief)

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn’t.
~Daniel Keys Moran

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
~Stephen Vizinczey

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
~Orson Welles

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
~Louis D Brandeis (USSC, AJ)

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He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee’s hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses.
~Siddha Nagarjuna

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
~Homer

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The devils when get caught of their bad act would enact a whole drama of being against one another.
~Anuj Somany

In the day light, Wolves and Jackals pretend to verbally fight with each other only to delight the audience full of donkeys and monkeys and once out of sight of the spectators, they party together to eat the meat or sweet in the night. In this whole drama, the crafty foxes divide themselves into supporters and detractors of the conflict to propagate the matter to further befool the viewers & listeners.
~Anuj Somany

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.
~James Madison

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war ‒ to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
~Osho

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Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
~Rush Limbaugh

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
~William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.
~Matt Taibbi

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
~Dan Quayle

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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
~Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

When the Enlightened King rules his deeds spread over the whole world but seem not from himself. His riches are loaned to the Myriad Things, but the people do not depend on him. He is there, but no one mentions his name. He let things find their own delight
~Chuang-Tzu

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The Radical creed, as I understand it, is this: We have not abandoned our old belief in liberty, justice, and Self-help, but we say that under certain conditions the people cannot help themselves, and that then they should be helped by the State representing directly the whole people.
~Arnold J Toynbee

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
~Baruch Spinoza

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We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
~Horace Greeley (1811-1872)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
~Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five’s each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.
~Tom Morello (1964- )

The beauty of the kingdom appears only to those in higher positions. To the king who has a high view over the whole city.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

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The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn’t figure into was human nature, and that’s what corrupts it.
~Jesse Ventura

All socialism involves slavery…. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another’s desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is ‒ How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?
~Herbert Spencer

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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types ‒ the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
~G K Chesterton

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The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
~Clint Eastwood (in 2009, the Obama years)

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they’re letting the worst patients run the place.
~Robert W Welch, Jr (1899-1985)

The whole world is run on bluff.
~Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~Will Rogers

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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
~George Mason (1725-1792)

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
~Mahatma Gandhi

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.
~Richard Henry Lee (ex-Pres, Continental Congress)

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.
~John Kennedy

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The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.’
~Richard Bernstein

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
~Alice Walker

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don’t think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in the world.
~Leo Varadkar (Irish pol)

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident ‒ the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
~Edward C Banfield

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The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
~Jeffrey Sachs

Between 1857 and 1929 [pre-Great Depression], while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
~Charles Duhigg

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don’t things are just going to head in a direction that’s going to be almost impossible to recover from.
~Donald Trump

He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system.
~John C Calhoun (former VP, 1782-1850)

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The whole of the Bill of Rights is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals… It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
~Albert Gallatin

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Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
~Lawrence Kohlberg

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
~William Howard Taft (ex-Pres/Chief Justice, the only such)

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
~Thomas Jefferson

A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime… whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber… or by millions, calling themselves a government.
~Lysander Spooner

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
~Thurgood Marshall (USSC, AJ)

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
~Alexander Hamilton

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~David Mamet

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The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
~Remy de Gourmont

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
~James 2:10, Bible

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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
~Saint Bernard

When you’re a lawman and you’re dealing with people, you do a whole lot better if you go not so much by the book but by the heart.
~Andy Griffith (actor, as Mayberry’s tiny-town sheriff)

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A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer’s hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.
~John Gay

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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
~Michel Foucault

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
~Jane Fonda

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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.
~James Monroe

To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.
~Vishnu Sharma (in Panchatantra)

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
~Baha’u’llah

Let’s get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.
~Nigel Farage

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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
~Duke of Wellington

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
~Arthur Wellesley

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If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
~Bhumibol Adulyadej

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
~Sun Tzu

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We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? …If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!
~Matthias Erzberger (as quoted by Georges Clémenceau, French PM WW I)

Sometimes the whole nation has to pay for the foolish deed of one man.
~Proverb

A person or family can never bear the burden of whole nation’s sins.
~Bahram Baloch

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When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
~Lytton Strachey (ruled 1643-1715)

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
~Napoleon Bonaparte (exiled May, 1814)

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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
~Andrew Jackson

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
~Herbert Hoover

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
~Herbert Hoover

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he’s the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
~Harry S Truman (current est: 342 million)

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To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.
~Isoroku Yamamoto

It is time to show the whole world that America is back ‒ bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
~Donald Trump (pre-Iran)

Our obsession for success, recognition and supremacy in all circumstances without ever aware of the gravity of the situation and the subtle intricacies that impact the fabric of the society as a whole has made us more inhuman than humanly possible, as a result we have become more artificial, with not even an iota of LIFE throbbing within Us.
~Ramana Pemmaraju

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty ‒ to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
~Samuel Adams

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.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
~Lajos Kossuth

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I’ve met in my whole life didn’t really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.
~Chloe Zhao

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Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
~Bourke Cockran

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. …The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society.
~John Adams

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
~Edward R Murrow

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.
~Herbert Hoover

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My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it’s a tornado that I’m controlling. It’s creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
~Marilyn Manson

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~H L Mencken

Generally when there’s a lot of smoke…there’s just a whole lot more smoke.
~George Foreman

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
~Mark Twain

If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we’re going to start over, and that’s always a good thing to do.
~Bob Weir (Grateful Dead, 1947-2026)

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
~Mark Twain

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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
~George Orwell

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
~Frederick Douglas

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It’s important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don’t on the whole… The danger begins when people start admiring politicians.
~Richard Ingrams

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.
~Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan, youngest Nobel)

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Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn’t understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that’s what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn’t just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of.
~Alison Bechdel

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
~Dr Seuss

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken.
~Bobby Sands (self-martyred, hunger strike)

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Try to raise a voice that shall be heard from here to Albany and watch what it is that comes forward to shut off the sound. It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct. It is a note from a friend of your fathers offering you a place in his office. This is your warning from the secret police. Why, if any of you young gentlemen have a mind to get heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputation, and a close enemy of most men who wish you well. And what will you get in return? Well, if I must for the benefit of the economists, charge you up with some selfish gain, I will say that you get the satisfaction of having been heard, and that this is the whole possible scope of human ambition.
~John Jay Chapman

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
~Malala Yousafzai

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Yup, the whole birther movement [Obama not native American] was racist.
~Colin Powell

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
~Thomas Jefferson

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
~Abraham Lincoln

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Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.
~Ruby Bridges

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man’s comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
~Rosa Parks

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
~Omar Benson Miller

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
~Maya Angelou

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White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that’s a whole ‘nother story.
~Marion Barry (ex-mayor, Washington DC)

The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.
~Ban Ki-moon (ex-Sec Gen, UN)

We listened to Donald Trump speak at the debate about ‘Stop and Frisk.’ I don’t think it’s a good way to go through life. I don’t think that’s going to solve any of our problems. It’s actually going to make racial tension a whole lot worse, and it’s going to make us feel like we’re singled out.
~Booker T Huffman

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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.
~Ban Ki-moon (ex-Sec Gen, UN)

Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They’re both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they’re still poor. And the Republicans don’t do anything for poor people, either.
~Charles Barkley

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My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man’s struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man’s press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn’t deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man’s problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn’t demonstrating non-violence.
~Malcolm X

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
~Marcus Garvey

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Whoever in prayer can say, “Our Father,” acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
~Tyron Edwards

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren’t a little flower somebody sewed on.
~Peggy Noonan

God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
~Martin Luther King Jr,

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I debated in high school: If you told things that weren’t true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It’s too bad they don’t apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students.
~Mark Hamill

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light ‒ in other words, through life ‒ registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
~Anne Lamott

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.
~Colin Powell

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.
~Alan Keyes

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The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people on both sides are considerably passionate. This isn’t a typical nine-to-five job. It’s on a whole other level of intensity.
~Abby Johnson

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
~Edmund S Muskie

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
~George Bernard Shaw

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~Umberto Eco

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As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup ‒ a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
~Deborah Harkness

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
~Oswald Chambers

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost… A man’s look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
~William Hazlitt

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
~Michel de Montaigne

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~James Russell Lowell

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
~Helen Keller

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The whole climate is changing: the winds, the ocean currents, the storm patterns, snow packs, snowmelt, flooding, droughts. Temperature is just a bit of it.
~John Holdren

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
~Vladimir Nabokov

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Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
~Phil Crosby

If you don’t know the whole story, shut up and listen.
~Brandon Garic Notch

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Every flower and insect, every bird, and all the creatures that live upon the land and swim within the rivers and seas, are part of the Tree of Life. You are connected to the whole of life. Whatever happens to the myriad forms of life in the world around you, has a direct affect on you.
~Alexis karpouzos

Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.
~Amit Ray

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
~Thomas Merton

If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger ‒ we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
~Sharon Salzberg

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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist’s role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
~Viktor E Frankl

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
~Helen Merrell Lynd

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A woman is like a banana; one alone can turn the whole bunch rotten.
~Proverb

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
~Greek Proverb

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Instead of asking why, always ask why not, and the whole orientation of your being will change from a world of limited possibilities, to a world of all possibilities. Remember there is always a way to what we desire, aspire.
~Mickey Mehta

The whole world is in constant motion. The earth moves, the clouds move, the waves move and we too must move. Move and reach the destination of your choice.
~RVM

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One mind awake can awaken another, / The second awake can awaken their next door brother. /Three awake can awaken the town /By turning the whole place upside down. / Many awake can make such a fuss / That they finally awaken the rest of us.
~Helen Kromer

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people…well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
~Andrew Schneider

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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
~Alan Lightman

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
~William Osler

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We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.
~Serge Kahili King

A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist’s role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
~Viktor E Frankl

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In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
~Michael Musto

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
~Baltasar Gracian

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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
~Dennis Potter

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
~Charles M Schulz

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The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.
~Nina Simone

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
~G H Hardy

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The biggest veil ‒ which will be the last one ‒ to be lifted, is the most mind-blowing one, as it reveals that the whole world ‒ all of it ‒ is a lie.
~Link Starbureiy

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
~Jodi Picoult

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
~Babe Ruth

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When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they’re just never accurate.
~Jamie Dimon

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don’t know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
~John Henrik Clarke

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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.
~David Hume

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
~Jean Piaget

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When we look at the stuff, what we see is an accumulation of stuff. The closer we look, the more parts we discover. Material matter consists of material parts. It comes into view that we are of physical and unseen stuff. It appears that we consist of a whole lot more than what is seen. Maybe our bodies are simply the wrapping we carry around to contain our true package. Often we are attracted to a pretty package that ain’t so nice when opened up. There are books and people with appealing covers… Yep‒ we are all package deals.
~Carl DeHaven

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
~Stephen Leacock

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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
~W Somerset Maugham

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
~Hermann Hesse

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A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized.
~John Barrymore (vibrant actor, extravagant lifestyle, heavy drinker, multiple divorces, etc)

The whole world is about three drinks behind.
~Humphrey Bogart

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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
~George Orwell

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
~Joseph Addison

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday…
On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia [script unused for his headstone]
~W C Fields

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: “It seemed a good idea at the time.”
~Dame Rebecca West

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A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose; if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder ‒ a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
~Thomas Carlyle

Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
~Vivian Baxter

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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
~Eileen Caddy

Debate, it seems to me, is one of the most useful of human inventions. It is the mother and father of all free inquiry and honest thought. It tests ideas, detects errors and promotes clear thinking. A man cannot stand up before it without exposing his whole intellectual stock of goods.
~H L Mencken

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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.
~Owen Feltham

Do not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole.
~Nikita Gill

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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.
~Jerome K Jerome

The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
~Karin Meißenburg (translator/author)

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Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
~Sonia Sotomayor (USSC, AJ)

You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think ‒ and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly.
~Charles Krauthammer

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
~Walt Whitman

I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
~Jay-Z

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When we’re talking about people not wearing clothes or being naked or whatever, that’s a whole lot of people. And I said this: if that’s their thing, and they feel comfortable doing that, then whatever; that works for them, but you don’t have to go that route if you don’t want to. We don’t want people to think that that’s what you have to do.
~Rozonda Thomas

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‘n puttin’ it back in.
~Will Rogers

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Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn’t ‒ that I shouldn’t grow dependent on anyone except myself. ‘One of these days, I ain’t gonna be here,’ she kept hammering inside my head.
~Ray Charles

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
~Swami Vivekananda

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Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body. In the end, submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life.
~C S Lewis

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you,” that would suffice.
~Meister Eckhart

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Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
~Lao Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
~Lao Tzu

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Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.
~Michael Jackson

It’s like, I don’t think you understand, Michael Jackson’s bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
~Macaulay Culkin

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies ‒ all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.
~Angela Carter

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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
~Edith Wharton (writer/designer, (1862-1937)

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn’t in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
~Charles Kuralt

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When psychologically unfit form the majority in any sect, and yet proclaim to be the only fittest, will not only be a threat to the existence of the sane minority, but are surely catastrophic for the human race as a whole!
~Ramana Pemmaraju

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
~Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
~John Stuart Mill

The crux of whole problem of the world is that most people take most often an opinion as a fact and a fact as an opinion
~Anuj Somany

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The growth of drug-related crime is a far greater evil to society as a whole than drug taking. Even so, because we have been seduced by the idea that governments should legislate for our own good, very few people can see how dangerously absurd the present policy is.
~John Casey (Brit academic)

Let us revise our views and work from the premise that all laws should be for the welfare of society as a whole and not directed at the punishment of sins.
~John Biggs Jr (former US judge)

What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works.
~Rob Portman

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If you see a whole thing ‒ it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives…. But close up a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
~Ursula K LeGuin

The direction of a man’s thought is always the decisive factor in his personality. His whole outer life will be determined by the inward inclination of his mind.
~Erich Sauer

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How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it give you wings? Does it give you roots? Does it make you look back at a month ago? And say, I am a whole different person right now. If yes, then it’s real. The evidence of truth and reality lies in how much something can touch you, can change you, even if it’s from very far away. Distance is the only evidence of what can be surpassed.
~C JoyBell C

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Mrs. Van Daan’s grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can’t any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.
~Anne Frank (@15, of typhus)

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
~Frederika Bremer

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My mother never boasted about it. She always kept it to herself, kept it secret. Spoke about it as little as possible. I would have preferred if she had also told us about it. Otto Frank visited us regularly and then you sometimes heard things, but I’ve never heard the whole story.
~Ton Voskuijl

Otto Frank, Anne’s father, may have helped shape her famous Diary.
~Google AI

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You cannot live your whole life nor base it on the assumption that someone else is going to carry your responsibilities at the finish line.
~Mwanandeke Kindembo

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I’ve been training for a marathon my whole life.
~Carole Radziwill

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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life.
~Malcolm Muggeridge

While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.
~Oliver Goldsmith

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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
~Shirley Jackson (actor)

‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
~Dag Hammarskjold (assassinated UN Sec Gen)

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It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilated the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair.
~Aleister Crowley

Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.
~Blaise Pascal

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
~Unknown (inaccurately attributed to Einstein)

Einstein said God doesn’t play dice with the universe, but I don’t know‒maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples’ back yards.
~Dennis Koenig

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I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
~Jane Goodall

That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
~Bill Watterson

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://brainyquote.com, https://dailypnut.com, https://goodreads.com,
https://quotesnet.net

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com

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The Salmagundi’s Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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Google AI, extensively

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