"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

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

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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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 a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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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."

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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

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"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."

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