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Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.
Topic: Prejudice
Author: Bernice Sandler
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
Topic: Ignorance
Author: Clarence Darrow
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
Topic: Heart Quotes
Author: French Proverb
They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
Topic: Business
Author: William Hazlitt
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Eileen Caddy
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
Topic: Finance
Author: Mae West
What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.
Topic: Reading
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Meister Eckhart
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Topic: Cleverness
Author: Israel Zangwill
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.
Topic: Home
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Topic: Apparitions
Author: Alexander Pope
Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Topic: History
Author: Earl Of Chesterfield
The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.
Topic: Soldiers
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smothered in surmise and nothing is But what is not.
Topic: Uncertainty
Author: William Shakespeare
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Topic: Living
Author: Unknown
And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.
Topic: October
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... - Melting Pot, The.
Topic: Literature
Author: Israel Zangwill
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Topic: Enemy
Author: Oscar Wilde