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I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
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A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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The future success of the Marine Corps depends on two factors: first, an efficient performance of all duties to which its officers… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have these meetings with really powerful men and they ask me all the time, 'Where are your kids? Are your kids… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I loved the old government in 1861. I loved the old Constitution yet. I think it is the best government in the… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I don't understand a belief that there is an invisible being in the sky who watches over us all the time and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk… — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Copy Share Image
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image