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You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.


Douglas Wilder

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GENE WILDER So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm...
GENE WILDER We're getting excited with the number of young players we have running multiple positions.
BOB WILDER Today was the most success we've had. It had been discouraging for our guys, so to score three today...
BOB WILDER Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
THORNTON WILDER I decided to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time - go get a chef and a nutritio...
DEONTAY WILDER I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
THORNTON WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day
THORNTON WILDER A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, s...
THORNTON WILDER Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
THORNTON WILDER The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min...
THORNTON WILDER But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ...
THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th...
THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal
THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p...
THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder
THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
THORNTON WILDER Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. And if there was one, believe us, ...
DENNIS WILDER A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.'This was said by gene wilder ... what ...
GENE WILDER The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t...
THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v...
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