Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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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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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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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
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I know it sounds old-fashioned, but I like the idea of women taking care of their men.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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I'm a straight guy and I date women, but I get on really well with gay guys. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality. The weirdest thing for me is when straight guys get really freaked out by gay guys. It's almost like they're insecure in their own sexuality. For me, I can be in a room full of gay men and have fun.
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No, the reward comes in knowing that our entire way of life in America depends on the rule of law; that the maintenance of that law is a hard and daily labor; that in this country, we don’t have soldiers in the streets or militias setting the rules. Instead, we have public servants - police officers - like the men who were taken away from us.
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Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
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Don't be afraid to show off who you are.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
