Quotes with woman-being

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  • Hannah Arendt Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Seneca Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bliss Carman Whether it be to failure or success; the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bill Shuster While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Anthony Holden While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • George Eliot Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Babe Ruth Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anna Akhmatova Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Oscar Wilde Who, being loved, is poor?
    A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Frost Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bonnie Blair Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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