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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Better | Change | Distrust | Heart | Man | Nations | Reason | Thought | Trust | War | Will | World | Afraid | Child | Thought |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Change | Government | Growth | Government |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.
Todd Rundgren, fully Todd Harry Rundgren
So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
Change | Experiment | People |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
People have to go out of their mind before they can come to their senses.
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They have discovered that the length of time we have now been in commission has rotted our ships and wasted our crews, and that with the completeness of our crews and the soundness of the pristine efficiency of our navy has departed. For it is impossible for us to haul our ships ashore and dry them out because the enemy's vessels being as many or more than our own, we are constantly anticipating an attack.
Change | Future | Past | Present | Right | Service | Virtue | Virtue | Wealth |
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
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Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.
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All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion? Much Ado About Nothing (Conrade at III, iii)
Burial | Change | Melancholy | Office |
And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Northumberland at II, iii)
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And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. Othello, Act iii, Scene 3
The lesson from physics is that entropy will always increase, it’s a fundamental law. The message from marketing is that your brand is more dispersed, you can’t fight it, so embrace it and try to find a way to work with it.