Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Quotes
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Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
Camille Claudel
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey
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Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
Baltasar Kormakur
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
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What I've never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who's happy and is always smiling.
Irina Shayk
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy
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Some men like Jack and some like JillI'm glad I like them both but stillI wonder if this freewheelingReally is an enlightened thing,Or is its greater scope a signOf deviance from some party line?In the strict ranks of Gay and StraightWhat is my status: Stray? Or Great?
Vikram Seth
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And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The men of England - the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
Edmund Burke
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Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead - ho! ho! - As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Twenty men crossing a bridge, Into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, Into twenty villages, Or one man Crossing a single bridge into a village.
Wallace Stevens
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It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.
Christina Hoff Sommers
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I, who am dead, have ways of knowingOf the crop of death that the quick are sowing.I, who was Pompey, cry it aloudFrom the dark of death, from the wind blowing.I, who was Pompey, once was proud,Now I lie in the sand without a shroud;I cry to Caesar out of my pain,'Caesar beware, your death is vowed.'
John Masefield
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My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.
William Shakespeare
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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
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No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
