W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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Free love sounds great.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
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Some people just aren't meant to be happy.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.