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Henry A. Wallace
* "With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
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Neale Donald Walsch
"Every individual undertaking, every individual thought, word, or action which leads to the transformation of the Self and to the lifting of any other being, is of extraordinary importance. It is not necessary to move mountains to move mountains. It is necessary only to move pebbles."
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William Arthur Ward
* "The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change and the realist adjusts the sails."
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George Washington
"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
"If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it; and if I could now conceive that the general Government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution." [letter to the United Baptists in Virginia, 1789]
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
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James Watt
"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
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John Wayne
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
“Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.”
“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”
“Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.”
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”
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Simone Weil
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, 'What are you going through?'"
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Chaim Weizmann
* "A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."
* "Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."
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Jim Wern
"I like messy people; people who don’t fit in a box or stay between the lines, but who’s integrity is greater than any rule book and who’s loyalty is stronger than blood."
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Charles Wesley
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
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Edwin Percy Whipple
"Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline."
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Edith Wharton
* "Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins."
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
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Marcia Wieder
"One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity." [ascribed]
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Warren Wendel Wiersbe
"If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm." [ascribed]
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Oscar Wilde
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”
"It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression."
"The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity."
"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
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Terry Tempest Williams
"Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future."
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Oprah Winfrey
"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity."
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John Wooden
* "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
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William Wordsworth
"That best portion of good people's lives,
Their little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love."
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Frank Lloyd Wright
"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change."
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N. T. Wright
* "The line between good and evil does not lie between 'us' and 'them,' between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual. This is not to say that all humans, and all societies, are equally good or bad; far from it. Merely that we are all infected and that all easy attempts to see the problem in terms of 'us' and 'them' are fatally flawed." [Surprised by Scripture]
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl
* "Bad ideas sometimes begin with a good impulse. The “loss of the sense of sin” arises, I believe, from a misguided notion of tolerance. Democracies thrive because of a neighborly forbearance of differences of opinion. Tolerance does not, however, require us to abandon our convictions or deny the existence of moral standards. Tolerance does not demand that we call "good" what is evil or "evil" what is good. Nor does forgiveness of an action mean that we approve the action; in fact, we can only forgive something that is a genuine offense."
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