Quotes with number-one

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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Anton Chekhov Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
    A Pale View of Hills (1982)
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Margaret Drabble Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 103
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Stephen Leacock Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Whately Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Olive Schreiner Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • John Ruskin Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Men exist for the sake of one another.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Queen Victoria Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Robert Menzies Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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  • Edward Hoagland Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Machiavelli Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Vauvenargues Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • William James Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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