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- Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of… — Carolyn Heilbrun
- Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we… — Oscar Romero
- Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel
- For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the… — W. W. Rouse Ball
- The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from… — George Mason
- Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that… — Arianna Huffington
- The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with.… — George Carlin
- A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere