Quotes with men-intellectuals

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  • Armistead Maupin But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lydia M. Child But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon By indignities men come to dignities.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Oscar Wilde By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Vaughan Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Dorothy Thompson Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Francis Bacon Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • I Ching Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John Ray Children are poor men's riches.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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