William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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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'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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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 thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.
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What makes a good deli is a place that, one, is generally family-owned or owned by individuals that care. Delis that are owned by large corporations tend not to have that same soul. And two, delis that make as much of their food from scratch as possible.
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I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
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The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.
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We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
