William Blake Quotes
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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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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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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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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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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 admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.
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Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.
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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
