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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

– Havelock EllisRate it:

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

– Stephen LeacockRate it:

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

– Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleRate it:

What we call life is only talk of nature.

– dejan stojanovicRate it:

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

– Robertson DaviesRate it:

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

– George Eliot, MiddlemarchRate it:

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

– CiceroRate it:

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

– Havelock EllisRate it:

What we call results are beginnings.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

– T. S. EliotRate it:

What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.

– The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)Rate it:

What we cultivate internally everyday, we pass that on to the world. It’s simple. We have to learn to cultivate joy, love, happiness and abundance within and then we will pass all this to the world.

– Purvi RanigaRate it:

What we do and what we know will impact someone today; Who we are will impact someone for a lifetime.

– Bob ReishRate it:

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

– Henry van DykeRate it:

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.

– Albert PineRate it:

What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.

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What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

– Bryant McGillRate it:

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

– Alexandra StoddardRate it:

What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

– William SafireRate it:

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

– Albert PikeRate it:

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

– Albert PikeRate it:

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

– DemosthenesRate it:

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