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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#any #apparent #becoming #cannot #done

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants. ↗

— William John Wills

#clothes #comes #does #everyone #foolish

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

All I can do is listen to what my body needs and feels. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#body needs #feels #i #i can #listen

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#communism #delusion #dictatorship #few #form

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#jazz #listen #lot #used

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#basically #english #i #ideas #interested

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#bug #did #grew #grow #grow up