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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother. ↗

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

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I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. ↗

— Esther Williams

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The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence. ↗

— George C. Williams

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And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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