William Morris Quotes
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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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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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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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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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
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I am the biggest Destiny's Child - Beyonce, Kelly, Michelle, all of them - fan in the world.
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I do dig the White Stripes. I like the record they have out now.
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive solution to the energy needs of the world. ... The real issue is whether their blueprints will work in the real world and not only in a "technological paradise."... Opponents of fission energy point out a number of differences between the real world and the "technological paradise." ... No acts of God can be permitted.
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The Ninth Amendment makes it clear that all the rights spelled out in the Constitution aren't the end of rights as we know them. It makes it clear that there are rights reserved to people that aren't spelled out in the Constitution.
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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
