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  • Bertrand Russell Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Carl Andre Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
    Cuts: Texts 1959-2004
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • W. H. Auden May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Darin Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Lilian Hellmann Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
    An unfinished woman (1969)
    Lilian Hellmann
    American playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1984)
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  • Sister Corita Kent Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
    Sister Corita Kent
    American artist, educator, and advocate for social justice
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  • Napoleon Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anita Loos Memory is more indelible than ink.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • George Robert Gissing Men are better companions before their success than after it, for they have so much more leisure.
    Commonplace book
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • W. Penn Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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  • Barbara de Angelis Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Richard Whately Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Archibald Alexander Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Machiavelli Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • John Ruskin Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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