William Penn Quotes
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
Karen Armstrong
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
Sam Yagan
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
Ian K. Smith
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
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When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
J. William Fulbright
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Imogen Cunningham
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer
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The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
Victoria Pendleton
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Cardinal Richelieu
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
Patricia Hill Collins
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
Caitlin Moran
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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
Terence McKenna
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Being a people pleaser is a fruitless task; love is love. There's no debating that concept.
Frances Bean Cobain
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There is a secret society of seven men that controls the finances of the world. This is known to everyone but the details are not known. There are some who believe that it would be better if one of those seven men were a financier.
R. A. Lafferty
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Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity and therefore that of bugs grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.
Boris Beizer
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A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
Soren Kierkegaard
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.
William Penn