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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

– P. D. JamesRate it:

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

– Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)Rate it:

What a crazy world we live in Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.

– Julie CochraneRate it:

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

– Georges BernanosRate it:

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

– Bruce BartonRate it:

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

– William ShakespeareRate it:

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

– Sigmund FreudRate it:

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

– Chauncey WrightRate it:

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

– G.K. ChestertonRate it:

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

– Mark TwainRate it:

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love

– Victor HugoRate it:

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

– Victor HugoRate it:

What a happy conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule, that the will of the majority shall govern...

– James BuchananRate it:

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

– Eckhart TolleRate it:

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

– Arthur RimbaudRate it:

What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

– Abraham MaslowRate it:

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

– SchopenhauerRate it:

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

– Miguel de CervantesRate it:

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

– Adlai Stevenson IRate it:

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

– Edward Bulwer-LyttonRate it:

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

– Edward Bulwer-LyttonRate it:

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