#grad

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

#benefit #columbia #could #course #educated

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ↗

— Simone Weil

#debases #degrades #entire #human #human being

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#disappeared #emergency #existing #far #gradually

One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public. ↗

— Julius Wellhausen

#been #circles #david #declined #domestic

Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#bank #because #block #blocking #closing

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#after #angeles #fell #graduation #i

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown

Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl. ↗

— Eric Williams

#always #basketball #because #girl #going

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy. ↗

— George C. Williams

#decisions #devising #gradually #help #human

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away! ↗

— Robbie Williams

#away #back #came #come #did