Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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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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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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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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The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.
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It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
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It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.
