Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.
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The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
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Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
