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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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You talk no more of that gay nation now,
Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.Source: Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1. -
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.
― Bronislaw Malinowski
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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[Soldier speaking to another soldier:] Why the hell couldn't you have been born a beautiful woman?
Source: LIFE Magazine, 16 July 1945, Cartoon Caption -
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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