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Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I think a performer should do his work and then shut up. ↗

— Richard Widmark

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acquire #animal #become #god #himself

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ↗

— 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

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. ↗

— John Whitehead

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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