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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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
Walter Jon Williams
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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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To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
Leonhard Euler
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Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.
Barack Obama
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
Irrfan Khan
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The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
Fritz Sauckel
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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