#whence

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

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Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you? ↗

— Edward Teach

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'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. ↗

— Black Elk

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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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