Quotes 4801 till 4820 of 10005.
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Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
Source: A Pale View of Hills (1982) -
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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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.
Source: The Middle Ground (2013) 103 -
Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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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.
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
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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.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
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Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.
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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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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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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.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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