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  • Andrea Dworkin Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Men will not always die quietly.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Don Delillo Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Mental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Booker T. Washington Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Edmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • A. Owen Penny Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Francis H. Bradley Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • William James Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Albert Camus Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
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