"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Evil is only good perverted."

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"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

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"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."

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"All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal."

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"To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny."

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"The nearer the dawnthe darker the night."

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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?"

"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."

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"Evil is only good perverted."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."

"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."

"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."

"Resolve and thou art free."

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen."

"All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal."

"To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny."

"The nearer the dawnthe darker the night."