William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
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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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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can... but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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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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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
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All this probing and grappling we must do, out in society: how much easier, Annabelle thinks, it is to stay in rooms you know as well as your own body, having a warm meal and an evening of television, where it's all so comfortably one-way.
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What man is a man who does not make the world better.
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The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.
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Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
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Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
