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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#above #apart #flaws #gets #great

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. ↗

— Irving Wallace

#conformity #cowardice #easy #more #right

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself. ↗

— Marc Wallice

#attacked #call #called #coke #cops

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#dogma #new #right #spirituality #step

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived. ↗

— Burt Ward

#book #conservative #deprived #eighteen #even

As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. ↗

— John Warner

#best #burden #children #classroom #federal

We must continue, however, to send a strong message of resolve to the people of Iraq, to our troops, to our coalition partners, and to the rest of the world that we, the United States of America, will stay the course and get the job done. ↗

— John Warner

#coalition #continue #course #done #get

Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was. ↗

— Diane Watson

#approach #been #charles #commitment #deep

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. ↗

— Alan Watts

#between #bodies #bounded #cannot #certain

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ↗

— John Wayne

#country #did #feel #great #great country