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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there. ↗

— William Wiley

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I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

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Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ↗

— George Will

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. ↗

— George Will

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I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. ↗

— Prince William

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Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about. ↗

— Prince William

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