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  • Alphonse Karr If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Baruch Spinoza If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benjamin Haydon If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • William James If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles Morgan If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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  • Gore Vidal If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bobby Flay If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Aaron C. Brown If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.
    Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Eugène Delacroix If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Oscar Wilde If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Agatha Christie If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Aleister Crowley If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Ann Coulter If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Woody Allen If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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