Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
Victoria Pendleton
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In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.
Karen Abbott
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
Natalie Dormer
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. Henry
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All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.
Baruch Spinoza
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It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.
Walter Scott
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Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.
Mary Doria Russell
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
Hans Kung
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Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.
Mary Martin
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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
John Milton
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
