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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#full #none #themselves #those #who

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat. ↗

— George C. Williams

#crossing #descendant #digestive #each #end

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#deepest #impulses #intellectually #me #necessary

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#him #i #man #much #only

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#better #better ways #capital #choose #countries

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#collaboration #community #hardest #only #open

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#angry #anyone #dares #grow #live

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#does #enjoy #jazz #jazz musicians #last

The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important. ↗

— Arthur Wimperis

#chance #dreadful #gives #important #little

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed. ↗

— Terri Windling

#average #gems #i #looking #might