Honore de Balzac Quotes
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore de Balzac
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Nas
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson
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Rahm Emanuel
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The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
Fatema Mernissi
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
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The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.
Charles A. Beard
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What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.
Epictetus
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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore de Balzac
