Jane Austen Quotes

But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

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• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

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• The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

  

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

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• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

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• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

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• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

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• I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

  

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• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  

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• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

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• Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

  

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• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

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• I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

  

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• Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

  

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• I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

  

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• The continued vitality of our Constitution and the survival of each freedom it protects depend upon the right to vote and the vibrant democracy it affords us. In short, the right to vote underlies each of our other rights.

  

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• You can't go into the cage and not love it, and you can't go in there unprepared. You have to prepare.

  

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• But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.

  

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