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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.


George Santayana

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LARA STONE You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is diff...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
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MARILYN FRENCH I've always said, 'Underwater or on top, men and women are compatible.'
SYLVIA EARLE But only in their dreams can men be truly free It was always thus and always thus will be.
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CHARLES A. CERAMI Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of...
EMMELINE PANKHURST I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and beg...
M. AGEYEV Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are b...
ERICA JONG Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
LOIS WYSE You're seeing a lot of younger men with older women and it's because there are no defined rules of e...
JODI DELUCA Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Ti...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more ...
WARREN FARRELL There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.
And others who al...
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JOHN GRAY I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being differe...
SUSANNE BIER Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces...
NICOLA FOULSTON Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces...
HENRY FORD Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
TOM SCHULMAN Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women...
JENNY SHIPLEY When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their id...
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KATHI GLIST Men and women will retain their sex in heaven
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DAVID RIESMAN Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
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HALEH ASHFAR Only small men parade their learning, talk over their audience and air their superior knowledge. Onl...
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ANITA BROOKNER Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take...
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H. L. MENCKEN On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
H. L. MENCKEN On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I laugh at people who think their spontaneous, yet plan their spontaneous moments.
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EDMUND LEACH Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea...
EDMUND LEACH Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY There are so many inconsistencies between their data and their conclusions you have to question eith...
MICHAEL CADDELL I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in g...
HILARY DUFF The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
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NEIL CROSS Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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DONNA FERBER Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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TESS GERRITSEN War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts!
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PETER O'TOOLE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology....
TERRY EAGLETON Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to...
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
GEORGE SANTAYANA People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious that that they are true.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
GEORGE SANTAYANA America is a young country with an old mentality.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
GEORGE SANTAYANA An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage,
and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
GEORGE SANTAYANA To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation sho...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Consciousness is a born hermit.
GEORGE SANTAYANA My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it mus...
GEORGE SANTAYANA In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
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