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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
A Time for Moral Courage, Readers Digest (July 1964) -
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860. -
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
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Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
Documentary Mandela (1994) -
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
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Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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