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W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone

You are called a square peg in a round hole when you work or engage in activities that do not come naturally, and that are inwardly repellent. In such an unhappy situation you can change your position and place ourselves find in an environment that is pleasing to you.

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W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

If we are to appreciate the inner dynamics we don't need to change them or judge them. There is wisdom in each of the dynamics observed. To determine what you think should happen is placing the ego in charge of the show. When the deep beingness seeks a change you will know it. Otherwise the wisdom is to put oneself in accord with the Mystery. This is hard for anyone with degrees of control issues.

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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer

My concern has always been to promote joy in mathematics for all-ability pupils, and the driving force has been a feeling that must be shared by anyone who has derived great pleasure from any subject - intense regret that the subject in question is so often presented in a way that produces dislike, worry and a sense of failure.

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W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Take away the moral argument: persuade men that when ascribing to the Deity justice and mercy they are speaking of qualities generically distinct from those which exist among mankind -- qualities which we are altogether unable to conceive, and which may be compatible with acts that men would term grossly unjust and unmerciful: tell them that guilt may be entirely unconnected with a personal act, that millions of infants may be called into existence for a moment to be precipitated into a place of torment, that vast nations may live and die, and then be raised again to endure a never-ending punishment, because they did not believe in a religion of which they had never heard, or because a crime was committed thousands of years before they were in existence: convince them that all this is part of a transcendentally perfect and righteous moral scheme, and there is no imaginable abyss to which such a doctrine will not lead. You will have blotted out those fundamental notions of right and wrong which the Creator has engraven upon every heart; you will have extinguished the lamp of conscience; you will have taught men to stifle the inner voice as a lying witness, and to esteem it virtuous to disobey it. But even this does not represent the full extent of the evil.

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W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer

Education consists in co-operating with what is already inside a child's mind. A good teacher will nearly always be able to make his points simply by asking a class questions, by making the class realize clearly what they already know "at the back of their minds.

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W. Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade

All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as revealed religion. They are theories more or less rational which uncivilized men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilized men believe that they believe.

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Vivienne Westwood, born Vivienne Isabel Swire

There's something really awful about the way people dress now. Everyone looks the same. Everyone wants to look neutral.

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Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, "simple interpretation" is obviously not enough.

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Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

It is in prison … that one becomes a real revolutionary.

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Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

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Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. -Vince Lombardi.

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