Kahlil Gibran Quotes
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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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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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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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.
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We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.
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The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
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All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.
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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
