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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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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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.
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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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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.
