W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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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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In America, public opinion is the leader.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
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You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
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There is always something left to lose.
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There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
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I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
