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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."

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"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."

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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."

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"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."

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"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

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"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."

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"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."

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"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."

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"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."

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