Quotes with men-versus-women

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  • Samuel Smiles It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Aeschylus It is always in season for old men to learn.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Henry Newman It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Betty Friedan It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William Ellery Channing It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Aristotle It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Archibald Alexander It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • James Baldwin It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thomas Hardy It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Frederick Douglass It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • André Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • William M. Evarts It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
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  • George S. Patton It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Alva Myrdal It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Gertrude Stein It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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