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- 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 (1856 - 1924), Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915
- The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
- The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
- Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), A Room of One's Own (1929)
- I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
- Alexander Woollcott (1887 - 1943), Letter to Rex O'Malley, 1942
- If a `religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Godel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
- John D. Barrow (1952 - ), (1735-1811)
- Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), State of the Union address 2003
- In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
- Terry Pratchett, (on the big bang theory)
- Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
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