Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Antonin Artaud With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Bradley A. Smith With super PACs, we've seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bob Newhart With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Will Durant Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Woman for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: ''Blind yourself, for I am blind.''
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Camille Paglia Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Barber Conable Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
    The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Lady Blessington Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production, they are better critics than authors.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Campbell Brown Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Hall Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
    Northern Exposure Baby Blues
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Amelia Earhart Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anita Borg Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Paula Nelson Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.
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