A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
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We generally think that democracy works best when citizens can cast an informed vote. To willfully refuse to provide that information and say, 'Well, send me a bill,' seems to me to be deeply undemocratic.
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The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer t...
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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
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It's when they knowingly and willfully don't do what we ask them to do and the horses actually start to fall down and die, that's when we treat it like a criminal case.
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