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.
Quotes to Explore
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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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.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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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.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my 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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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.
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You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are socialized to take advantage of only one of these informal options: their wife or womanfriend.
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God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
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Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently
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In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.
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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.
