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My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Author:
Emile Zola
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The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Author:
Emile Zola
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Author:
Xun Zi
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
Author:
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters.
Author:
Jason Zebehazy
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Men, today we die a little.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
Author:
Emil Zatopek
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It takes two men to make one brother.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
Author:
Marguerite Yourcenar
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Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
Author:
Cole Younger
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
Author:
Owen Young
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Author:
Owen Young
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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Author:
Edward Young
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Author:
Edward Young
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All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
Author:
Edward Young
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Author:
Andrew Young
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Author:
Kenko Yoshida
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Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around.
Author:
Susannah York
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Author:
William Yeats
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
Author:
William Yeats
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Author:
William Yeats
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Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Author:
Gao Xingjian
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Men create the gods in their own image.
Author:
Xenophanes
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Author:
Xenophanes
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But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.
Author:
Xenophanes
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We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.
Author:
Zakk Wylde
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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Author:
Robert Wyatt
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Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.
Author:
Joe Wurzelbacher
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Author:
Wilbur Wright
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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Author:
Richard Wright
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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
Author:
Richard Wright
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Author:
Frances Wright
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Author:
Chauncey Wright
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A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
Author:
Christopher Wren
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I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
Author:
Herman Wouk
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
Author:
John Woolman
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
Author:
John Woolman
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Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.
Author:
John Woolman
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Author:
Carter Woodson
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
Author:
John Witherspoon
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Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
Author:
John Wise
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
Author:
Amy Winehouse
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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For all men would be cowards if they durst.
Author:
John Wilmot
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Free men are the strongest men.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
Author:
Roy Williams
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See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Author:
Robin Williams
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There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
Author:
Esther Williams
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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
Author:
Charles Williams
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Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
Author:
Bern Williams
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
Author:
John Wilkins
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The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
Author:
Richard Wilbur
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For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
Author:
William White
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Author:
William White
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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
Author:
Theodore White
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Author:
Theodore White
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
Author:
E. White
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When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Author:
Richard Whately
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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe God for any blessing is that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
Author:
Richard Whately
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All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Author:
Richard Whately
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Author:
Brooke Westcott
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Author:
Rebecca West
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The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Author:
Rebecca West
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
Author:
Mae West
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
Author:
Mae West
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Author:
Mae West
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
Author:
Mae West
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Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
Author:
Mae West
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A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
Author:
Allen West
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I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Author:
Ida Wells
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
Author:
Ida Wells
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Author:
H. Wells
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
Author:
H. Wells
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I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Author:
Duke Wellington
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.
Author:
Gideon Welles
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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Men are irrelevant.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
Author:
Rachel Weisz
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.
Author:
Otto Weininger
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Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
Author:
George Weinberg
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As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.
Author:
George Weinberg
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We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
Author:
George Weinberg
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Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
Author:
George Weinberg
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Men are actually the weaker sex.
Author:
George Weinberg
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Author:
Simone Weil
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It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
Author:
Simone Weil
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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Author:
Andre Weil
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Author:
Noah Webster
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
Author:
Noah Webster
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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Author:
John Webster
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I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.
Author:
Sigourney Weaver
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Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
Author:
Anthony Wayne
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Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
Author:
Anthony Wayne
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Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
Author:
William Watson
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A manager is an assistant to his men.
Author:
Thomas Watson
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All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Author:
Thomas Watson
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Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.
Author:
Diane Watson
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Author:
George Washington
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Author:
George Washington
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Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
Author:
George Washington
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
Author:
George Washington
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Author:
George Washington
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Author:
Booker Washington
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On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
Author:
Mercy Warren
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
Author:
Earl Warren
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Author:
William Ward
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I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Author:
Fred Ward
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It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
Author:
Fred Ward
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Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
Author:
Zack Wamp
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
Author:
Julie Walters
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I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it.
Author:
Ray Walston
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Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places.
Author:
Raoul Walsh
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Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.
Author:
James Walsh
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All those men have their price.
Author:
Robert Walpole
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
Author:
David Walliams
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Author:
Edmund Waller
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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Author:
Lew Wallace
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If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Author:
Alice Walker
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Author:
Alice Walker
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Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
Author:
George Wald
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A scientist should be the happiest of men.
Author:
George Wald
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While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
Author:
Andy Wachowski
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Author:
Bernard Voto
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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
Author:
Voltaire
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Author:
Voltaire
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Author:
Voltaire
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Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Author:
Voltaire
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Author:
Voltaire
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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Author:
Voltaire
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Author:
Voltaire
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I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
Author:
Nana Visitor
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.
Author:
Troy Vincent
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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Author:
George Villiers
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Author:
Henry Villard
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Author:
Giambattista Vico
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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
Author:
Tom Verlaine
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The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.
Author:
Rene Veaux
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Author:
Henry Vaughan
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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Author:
Giorgio Vasari
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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.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Author:
Charles V
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Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Author:
John Updike
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Author:
John Updike
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When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
Author:
Bob Uecker
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Author:
Lao Tzu
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
Author:
Cicely Tyson
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
Author:
William Tyndale
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Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children.
Author:
Kathleen Turner
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A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.
Author:
Robin Tunney
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First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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Study men, not historians.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Author:
Harry Truman
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In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Author:
Harry Truman
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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Author:
Harry Truman
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In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
Author:
Francois Truffaut
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
Author:
Verne Troyer
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When men think much, they can rarely decide.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Author:
Herbert Tree
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Author:
Brian Tracy
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.
Author:
Bill Toomey
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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
Author:
Ernst Toller
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At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.
Author:
Ernst Toller
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I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?
Author:
Ferdinand Toledo
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Author:
Alexis Tocqueville
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
Author:
John Tillotson
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I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Author:
Strom Thurmond
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Author:
James Thurber
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Author:
James Thurber
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Author:
James Thurber
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Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Author:
Thucydides
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Author:
Thucydides
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It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Author:
Thucydides
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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Author:
Edward Thorndike
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But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.
Author:
John Thorn
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
Author:
John Thorn
