#irs

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#defeat #evolution #first #first step #formal

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#awake #been #before #cannot #did

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#chief #commander #first #greatest #legislator

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.' ↗

— Lee Westwood

#congratulations #dad #few #first #hours

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#always #choose #climb #continue #first

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#choose #comes #connoisseur #heart #like

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #first #first love #last #like

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again. ↗

— Lenny Wilkens

#chance #fail #first #first time #just

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. ↗

— Emma Willard

#boarding #boarding school #conversation #daughter #expected

But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#career #class #did #everything #executed