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.
F. H. Bradley
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
Warren Farrell
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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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!
Taslima Nasrin
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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.
C. L. R. James
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland
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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.'
Ted Strickland
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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.
Nadine Velazquez
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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.
Haile Selassie
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Men tend to be selfish.
Caprice Bourret
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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.
Gale Sayers
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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.
Pansy Ho
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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.
Caleb Landry Jones
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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.
Lana Turner
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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.
Karl Malone
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Viktor E. Frankl
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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.
Jack London
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Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy.
E. W. Kenyon
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Every night before bed, I drop down to the floor and do 20 sit-ups, 5 push-ups and stretching. No matter what the day has been like, I drop and give myself 20 every single night.
Tamara Taylor
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That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'
Amy Poehler
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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Kahlil Gibran