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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida

Angry, Someone, Understand

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
Washington Irving

Nothing, Enough

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
Jennifer Aniston

Someone, Friend, Equal

He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
Ovid

Hate, Wish, Destroyed

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Truth, Lives, Invisible

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow

Learn, Speak, English

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

God, Power, History

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather

Single, Dark, Sometimes

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
Theodor Adorno

Death, Humanity, Become

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
Baltasar Gracian

Put, Often, Depend

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Cather

Great, Live, Dream

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper

Truth, Wisdom, Weed

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

Kindness, Enemy, Friend

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
Christopher Hitchens

Become, Ideas, Pakistan

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton

Time, Freedom, Death

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert Parker

Good, Women, She

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert

Beautiful, Woman, Animal

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis

Person, Country, Gang

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper

Mistakes, Step, Known

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane

Yourself, Someone, Friend

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
Neil Gaiman

Work, Human, Might

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
Leo McKern

Freedom, Easy, Speech

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

Character, Person, Others

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Freedom, Working

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
Toni Morrison

Love, Children, Weren

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

Good, Attitude, Blessings

I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John Ford

Heaven, Dew, Drops

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Great, Person, Small

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven

Great, Art, Her

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro

Used, Benefit, Belong

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