Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 4582.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864 -
In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1 -
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
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In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
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In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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