Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.
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With another screech, the golem wrenched itself free of its wreckage and began to claw itself forward, trailing its ruptured spine. It was as if necromancy, not golem-magic, was pulling its strings.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
