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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. ↗

— Hugh Walpole

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What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer. ↗

— Robert Tew

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

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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

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By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients. ↗

— Andrew Weil

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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto, Jim, but not as we know it,’ I say. ‘Fascinating,’ says Lou, unsmiling humouring my Star Trek reference, while wincing at the foul food. (And what made me say that? Is there such a thing as a dad-joke vacuum that needs to be filled, even in the wild?) ↗

— Fiona Wood

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