#them

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified. ↗

— Wayne White

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#advances #civilization #extending #important #number

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#plays #them #treat #truths #trying

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#adventure #custodians #die #done #fervor

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#bear #children #give #just #made

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#contradict #other #people #themselves #well

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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