"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

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"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

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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?"

bell hooks, American Critic

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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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"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."

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"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."

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

"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

"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?"

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

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

"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."

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

"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?"

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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."

"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."

"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."