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.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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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.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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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.
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Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?
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I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.
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Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.
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To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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.
