William Penn Quotes
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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I'm so proud and honored to have been in 'Lonesome Dove' and 'Eight Men Out.' How come I'm not known for one of those?
D. B. Sweeney
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
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Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Sam Houston
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
Tanit Phoenix
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Karen DeCrow
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
Waris Ahluwalia
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
Mae West
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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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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
Warren Farrell
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You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
Rachel Weisz
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
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In busy companies of men.
Andrew Marvell
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No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Paulo Coelho
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
Marc Andreesen
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There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.
Aaron Zigman
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
William Penn