Quotations
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Men
«The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him»
Author: Crystal Eastman
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Men
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cheerful, crumb, crumbs, cultivated, grocer, household, inefficiency, protects, telephone, telephone number
«The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
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Men
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Creative impulse, impulses, possessive
«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»
Author: George William Curtis
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Men,
Men and Women,
Mistakes
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fourteen, horny, of a sudden, puberty, thirteen, twenty one
«They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.»
«The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Men
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caught, Caught in The Act, discreditable, honor, latter, regrets, worked
«The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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God,
Men
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abdicate, abdicated, abdicates, Law of God, natural causes, natural law, The Bird, The Birds, Traditions, traps, turn around