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!
Eddie Marsan
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
Haile Selassie
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
Barry Ritholtz
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Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.
Garry Shandling
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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.
Laura Wilkinson
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Sallust
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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.
A. S. Byatt
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I love older men.
Cameron Diaz
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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.
Calvin Klein
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
Barbara Castle
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Edgar Guest
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Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.
Warren Farrell
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
Alan Ayckbourn
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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.
Alexander Hamilton
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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.
Albert Einstein
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
H. L. Mencken
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Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
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I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.
Elayne Boosler
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The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland
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The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
Andrew Greeley
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When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
George Washington