Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
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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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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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Only men of character are trusted.
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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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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
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I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
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It is important for a father who feels pushed away to say, in effect, 'When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father,' or 'I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks.' Women cannot hear what men do not say. – page 105.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
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For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
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I believe in angels, the kind that heaven sends. I'm surrounded by angels, and I call them my best friends
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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
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To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
