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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...

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When women go wrong men go right after them.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and j...

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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know...

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There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether...

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Kathy AckerMy Mother: Demonology

The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, ...

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I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academicall...

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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t...

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Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds ...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. Ho...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

I've crossed paths since with men like him. I wish I could say differently. But I have. And what I h...

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Khaled HosseiniAnd the Mountains Echoed

Then, Patrick, you do feel it too? You do feel ... something? It would be so bleak if you felt nothi...

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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than ...

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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so luck...

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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intellige...

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Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering w...

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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all the...

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I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

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This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice.

How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca...

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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behav...

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You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You ...

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She sighed. Men were a pain.

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Larry McMurtryThe Last Kind Words Saloon

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready fo...

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Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

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Laurell K. HamiltonGuilty Pleasures

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, pu...

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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...

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It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can sa...

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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a p...

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the ti...

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk ...

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Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

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Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreed...

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The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

What is the French word for rain? Le rain? La rain? Is the rain masculine or feminine? It’s such a b...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-s...

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Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking ...

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We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, ...

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Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all me...

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Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to res...

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...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

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Louis L'AmourRide the Dark Trail

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad ...

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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom ...

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A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their coming...

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Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the eart...

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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does no...

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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerne...

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Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without...

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Lynne Reid BanksThe Secret of the Indian

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can ac...

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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...

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Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestin...

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When women go wrong, men go right after them.

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I d...

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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb ...

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Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so...

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into ...

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, ...

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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who do...

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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they ...

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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman he loves; later, the feeling t...

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... the good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find her...

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Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?

Real men laugh at opposition real men smile when enemies appear.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpr...

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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would up...

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To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock...

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Ah men,why do you want all this attention?I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if a...

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Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too...

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There were no men in this painting, but it was about men, the kind who caused women to fall. I did n...

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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? I...

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I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the a...

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According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better...

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He was a dork, a dink, a dong… Why should the male member be used as a term of abuse? No man hated h...

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Margaret AtwoodStone Mattress: Nine Tales

After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expec...

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