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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. ↗

— Earl Weaver

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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them. ↗

— Mae West

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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. ↗

— Rebecca West

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I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

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I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. ↗

— William Whipple

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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. ↗

— George Will

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