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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Phyllis Schlafly Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.
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  • Aaron Allston Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Bradley A. Smith Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Albert Einstein Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Charles Brower Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
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  • Bertrand Russell Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Juvenal Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Robertson Davies Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Joseph Wood Krutch Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
    Joseph Wood Krutch
    American writer, critic, and naturalist (1893 - 1970)
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  • George Washington Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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