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When you have got a good thing, where you want it, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

– Winston Churchill

When you try to make an IMPRESSION, sometimes that is the impression you make.

When the teacher is ready, the learners will come. When the learner is ready, the teacher will come.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

– Marquis De La Grange

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

– Eric Hoffer

When someone demands blind OBEDIENCE, you’d be a fool not be peek.

When others throw bricks at you, use them to make a pathway to a successful future.

– Grant M. Bright

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

– Eric Hoffer

When it is darkest, the stars come out.

When man discovered the mirror (the social mirror of what others think of us), he began to lose his soul.

When elephants fight, the grass suffers.

– African Proverb

When everybody owns it, nobody takes care of it.

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a very small package.

When a person is always RIGHT, there is something WRONG.

Whatever happens, never happens by itself.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Whatever you resist, persists.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

– Mignon McLaughlin

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

– Bengamin Disraeli

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.

What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

– Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

What I can do, you cannot do. What you can do, I cannot do.

– Mother Teresa

What can be said about the permanent risk of conflicts between nations, of civil wars, and of widespread violence, before which international organizations and national governments appear almost impotent? Faced with such threats, everyone must feel the moral duty to promote the cause of peace and understanding.

– Pope John Paul II

What do we live for but to make sport for our neighbors and to laugh at them in return?

– Mr. Bennett

What doesn’t come out in the wash will certainly come out in the rinse.

Weeds are flowers in disguise.

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

– Robert Wilensky

We shall not cease from exploring, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

We understand and believe vastly more than we know.

– Blaise Pascal

We have two ends, With a common link; With one we sit, With one we think. Success depends on what we use Heads we win; tails we lose!

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