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  • Susan B. Anthony Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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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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  • Paul De Man Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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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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  • Mark Twain Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eli Cass Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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  • Gerald Brenan Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
    Gerald Brenan
    British writer and hispanist (1894 - 1987)
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  • Brad D. Smith Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Ivan Illich Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Samuel Johnson Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • P. T. Barnum Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Woody Allen Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Henry Fielding Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Andrew Young Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Roy Hattersley Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
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