Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
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Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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Be confident to be competent.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
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No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love--except the housewife.
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When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
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Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to...
JON KABAT-ZINN The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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GERMANY KENT Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
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Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...
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The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be ha...
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The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happ...
PEGGY NOONAN The sad heart needs work to do.
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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
LIL WAYNE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
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Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous ...
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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ARISTOTLE They are allowed to do a substantial amount of political activity, but they are not allowed to make ...
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To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI German thoroughness will make sure that everything will work at the time of the kickoff. The Germans...
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And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Shaq pe hai yaqeen unko,
Yaqeen pe hai shaq Mujhy.....
.....Kis ka jhoot jhoot hai,
K...
VISHAL BHARADWAJ - HAIDER FILM How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
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Wherever you are, be all there.
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Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'
NICOLE SCHERZINGER Life is not about who you know, but rather about who knows you & what you stand for.
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN Sometimes things are meant to be the way they are, for everything else there's acceptance.
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I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.
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She wanted to be herself at all costs.
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Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handle...
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There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presu...
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ALLISON HINE I am who I am. U r who u r. Be who u r. Don't let nobody tell u different.
TOMMI POLO What will make you a star is in you
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Ah, much deluded! lay aside
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and comp... 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking. 
Be confident to be competent. 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. 
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small fee... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to... 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything... 
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... 
In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... 
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Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. 
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined... 
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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... 
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
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