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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
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The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.
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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.
