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We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. ↗

— 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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For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Because the living environment is what really sustains us. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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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

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No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

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Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

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If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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