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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

– John KeatsRate it:

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

– W. H. AudenRate it:

What the mess!!!!

– Matthew GumpRate it:

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve.

– Napolean HillRate it:

What the people believe is true. Anishinabe

– American Indian ProverbRate it:

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

– Barbara Charline JordanRate it:

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a co-operative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share. Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.

– Edith HamiltonRate it:

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

– Roland Barthes, EspritRate it:

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

– Wendell PhillipsRate it:

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

– AristotleRate it:

What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.

– ConfuciusRate it:

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

– Confucius, The Confucian AnalectsRate it:

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

– ConfuciusRate it:

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

– Carlos FuentesRate it:

What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

– Eppie FriedmanRate it:

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

– Oscar LevantRate it:

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who belive in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. ...And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

– President Herbert Hoover, in proposing the abolition of the United Nations, in favor of a "cooperation of God-fearing free natioRate it:

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

– Pearl BaileyRate it:

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

– Pearl BaileyRate it:

What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.

– Vicomte de ValmontRate it:

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

– Albert CamusRate it:

What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.

– Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?Rate it:

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

– Jonathan SwiftRate it:

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