"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

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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."

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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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"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."

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"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."

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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."

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"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."

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"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff."

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"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."

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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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"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."

"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."

"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."

"I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff."

"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."