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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Friendship close its eye, rather that see the moon eclipst; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • James Thurber From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Beeban Kidron From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
    Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.
    The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530 (January 1901), p. 22.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Ben Affleck God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • A. Alfred Taubman God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Erich Fromm Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • August Strindberg Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Paul E. Little Has it ever struck you that the vast majority of the will of God for your life has already been revealed in the Bible? That is a crucial thing to grasp.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Jacob Bronowski Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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