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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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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
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.
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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.
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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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And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget, forgetting any other home but this.
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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)
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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
But it was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
Come away, come away, Death, and in sad cypress let me be laid; fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, on my black coffin let there be strewn: not a friend, not a friend greet my poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there! Twelfth Night, Act ii, Scene 4, Feste, scene iv