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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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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.
Karl Marx
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
Victor Kiam
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
Cara Buono
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
Warren Farrell
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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!
Cara Delevingne
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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.
Barack Obama
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Ida B. Wells
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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.
Haile Selassie
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
Aaron Huey
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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.
Samantha Harvey
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
Tanit Phoenix
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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.
E. M. Forster
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Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
Hanna Rosin
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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.
G. Willow Wilson
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes
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I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
Ada Yonath
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
Carson McCullers
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When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven.
Paul Prudhomme
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Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.
Dean Devlin
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Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
William Blake