#ann

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

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What can be shown, cannot be said. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#said #shown

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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