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  • Carol Gilligan Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Siri Hustvedt Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Kahlil Gibran March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it.
    'Beards' (track 12) 5:29
    Source: Bewilderness: New York (audio CD, 2002)
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Billy Wilder Marilyn [Monroe] was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
    Source: The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • An Wang Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
    An Wang
    Chinese–American computer engineer and inventor (1920 - 1990)
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  • Beverley Nichols Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
    Beverley Nichols
    English playwright, journalist and composer (1898 - 1983)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Cate Blanchett Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • John Paul II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Carla Bruni Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Joey Adams Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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