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"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. on the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal." »Eric Lustbader
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"Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status." »Lao Tzu
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"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status." »Laurence J. Peter
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"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 9.
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"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book nine
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"Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission." »Fred Allen
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"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." »Benjamin Harrison
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"Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many." »Publilius Syrus
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"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission." »Robert Burns
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"the preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities." »Ursula K. LeGuin
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"the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored." »Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm." »Henry Truman
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"Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" the only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that." »Bill Cosby
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"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." »Robert Byrne
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"the big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten." »Jules Feiffer
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"the reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at." »Anna Russell
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"the main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots." »Rebecca West
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"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo." »Sir John Collins Squire, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another." »H.L. Mencken
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"Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another." »H. L. Mencken
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"SOAPY You know, feisty women never get boring. JOEL Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women." »Jerry Stahl
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"Human status ought not to depend upon the changing demands of the economic process." »Sir William Temple
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"women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health." »Gloria Steinem
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"Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks." »Carol Botwin
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"they don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)" »Ronald Reagan
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"the failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful." »Anna Garlin Spencer
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"That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life." »Paul Tournier
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