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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be. ↗

— Andy Williams

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ↗

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

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I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about. ↗

— Roberta Williams

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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined. ↗

— Gilbert White

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together. ↗

— Venus Williams

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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. ↗

— Ellen Willis

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