Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
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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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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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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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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
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My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
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Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.
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They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!
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- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
