William Butler Yeats Quotes
My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
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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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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.
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There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
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We're playing those mind games together Pushing the barriers, planting seeds Playing the mind guerrilla.
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Society is founded upon Cloth.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
