William Henry Ashley Quotes
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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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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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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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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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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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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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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For an instant a half-formed prayer struggled into Havor’s mouth. But he could not utter it. Not for himself. For him those words were already drowned by the noise the thong-whip had made, or the sounds of children crying out of hunger or the cold or sheer misery in that grey house of orphans in the far North, eight years ago.
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Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
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After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
