"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.“
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."
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"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."
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"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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