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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
"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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"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
Confucius
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
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"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
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"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
James Baldwin
"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
Man,
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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
Samuel Butler
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor."
William Prescott
"If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor."
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"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
Thomas Carlyle
"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
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"If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married."
Kirk Douglas
"If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married."
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"Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude."
John Stuart Blackie
"Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude."
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"Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are."
Oswald Mosley
"Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are."
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"To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men."
Richard Wilbur
"To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men."
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"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."
Leo Tolstoy
"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."
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"The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin."
Ralph Chaplin
"The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin."
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"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
Thomas Carlyle
"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
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"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
Honore de Balzac
"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
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"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
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"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
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"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
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"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis."
Oswald Mosley
"Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis."
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"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
Henry James
"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."
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"I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man."
Charles Atlas
"I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man."
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
Sigmund Freud
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."
Ernest Hemingway
"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without."
Man,
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"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine
"These are the times that try men's souls."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
William James
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
Emile M. Cioran
"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
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"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
Walt Whitman
"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
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"Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk."
Michael Parkinson
"Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk."
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"Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power."
Michael Foot
"Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power."
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
Jane Austen
"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
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"The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving."
Adelaide Anne Procter
"The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving."
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"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood."
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"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."
Thomas Arnold
"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
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"Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."
Samuel Johnson
"Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."
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"War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer."
Charles Mackay
"War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer."
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"As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds."
Gao Xingjian
"As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds."
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination."
Andrew Lang
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination."
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"Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping."
Kate Fox
"Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
Samuel Johnson
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The word of man is the most durable of all material."
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"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."
Luther Martin
"When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
Marcus Aurelius
"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
Sigmund Freud
"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
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"It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken."
Frank Perdue
"It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken."
Man,
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"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
David Herbert Lawrence
"For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive."
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"When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think."
Pat Schroeder
"When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more."
Marcus Minucius Felix
"The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more."
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