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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Wayne Gretzky I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Audre Lorde I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Lord George Byron I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Golden I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Terence I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
    Original: Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas das überwunden werden soll.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anita Diamant I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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