Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 4652.
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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 faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
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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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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
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