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What if this weren't a hypothetical question – Unknown
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over. – Chateaubriand
What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon, economist
What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. – Richard Harkness
What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde
What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again! – Mehmet Murat ildan
What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him. – Alan Marshall Beck
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. – Robert Herrick
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do. – Josh Billings
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. – Andre Malraux
What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. – John B. Gough
What is a rebel A man who says no. – Albert Camus
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there. – Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. – Alain
What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair! – Mehmet Murat ildan
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire. – Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. – Norman Douglas
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. – Ovid, Amorum, Book 2, 19, 3
What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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