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"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
Charlotte Whitton
"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
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"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"
Natalie Clifford Barney
"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!"
Philip Roth
"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!"
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"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."
Laurence Sterne
"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."
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"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."
Dwight L. Moody
"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."
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"There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be."
Samuel Richardson
"There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be."
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"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
Salma Hayek
"I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do."
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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."
Robert Browning
"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."
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"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
Lord Byron
"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."
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"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
Alexander Smith
"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."
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"It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play."
Troy Vincent
"It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play."
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"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."
Albert Ellis
"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."
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"There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man."
William Hazlitt
"There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man."
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"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."
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"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."
Henry Clay
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."
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"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
Marlene Dietrich
"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast."
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"A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring."
Jane Fonda
"A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring."
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"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
John Buchan
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
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"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."
Dante Alighieri
"Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men."
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"How great in number are the little minded men."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"How great in number are the little minded men."
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"With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate."
Gustav Krupp
"With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate."
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"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
Anzia Yezierska
"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse."
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"Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female."
Moss Hart
"Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female."
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"No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly."
Ausonius
"No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly."
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"Elves are cool, man."
Orlando Bloom
"Elves are cool, man."
Man,
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"I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform."
William McKinley
"I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform."
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"Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day."
Hugh Shelton
"Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day."
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"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."
James Stockdale
"I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do."
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"Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave."
L. Neil Smith
"Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave."
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"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."
Demosthenes
"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."
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"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand."
Mark Rydell
"It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand."
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"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."
Andre Maurois
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."
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"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."
Calvin Coolidge
"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."
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"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."
Georg Simmel
"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
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"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
John Locke
"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."
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"We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone."
Chief Joseph
"We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone."
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"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."
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"We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families."
Denis Kearney
"We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families."
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"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."
Philip James Bailey
"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."
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"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
Thomas Szasz
"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
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"In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate."
Georges Duhamel
"In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate."
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"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."
Maimonides
"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."
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"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."
Walter Savage Landor
"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."
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"We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."
John Thorn
"We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments."
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"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."
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"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."
Laurence J. Peter
"Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence."
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"Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock."
Meriwether Lewis
"Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock."
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"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
Andre Malraux
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
Man,
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