"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

Margot Asquith, English Author

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

Society

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."

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"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."

Knowledge

"Literature is the question minus the answer."

Literature

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."

Time

"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."

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"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds."

"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds."

"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."

"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"

"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel."

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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."

"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."

"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality."

"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."

"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."

"Literature is the question minus the answer."

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."

"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."