Random Quotes
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The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.Kenneth Williams, Acid Drops (1980)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.Wendell Willkie, An American Programme (1944)
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.Tryon Edwards
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)