Ethel Waters Quotes
I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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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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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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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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To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
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As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.
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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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We have a sacred obligation to support our men and women in uniform.
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Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.
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Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?
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I try to put a positive spin on things.
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I never posed as a saint. I would have slept with a man for nothing if I liked him well enough.
