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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.


Justin Winsor


#august #blunder #character #discovery #hardly

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.


Michael Winterbottom


#i #music #over #world

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.


Walt Whitman


#far #history #jeopardy #judging #justice

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.


Jeanette Winterson


#academics #body #book #consumes #each

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.


Edward Witten


#direction #enter #everything #familiar #fuzzy

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.


Ludwig Wittgenstein


#correct #deeper #does #germany #good

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.


James Wolfensohn


#assistance #bank #because #bridges #done

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.


Tobias Wolff


#because #best #clued #constructed #disappointing

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.


Paul Wolfowitz


#anything #big #career #distorted #enlarging

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#aspires #believes #dangerous #example #greater






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