George Washington Quotes
When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
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The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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So long as men shall be on earthThere will be tasks for them to do,Some way for them to show their worth;Each day shall bring its problems new.And men shall dream of mightier deedsThan ever have been done before:There always shall be human needsFor men to work and struggle for.
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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The laws of certain states …give an ownership in the service of negroes as personal property…. But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty-and when the captor in war …thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.
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Such and so various are the tastes of men.
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Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off.
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Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
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Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
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I looked at one little print for a long time. It was called 'The Landing.' It showed men tugging on a rope, pulling a boat up onto skids out of the water. The thought occurred to me that I might paint such a picture.
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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
