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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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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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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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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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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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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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 my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.
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With the two of us chatting and contemplating our worries together, I think we have grown really close.
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I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
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I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
