"Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer."

Dworkin, Andrea on eroticism   

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."

Steinem, Gloria on women
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"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."

Rostand, Jean on paradise
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"What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight."

Joubert, Joseph on truth
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"Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. "

Ingersoll, Robert Green on uncategorised
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"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has"

Ashley-Pitt, Alan on crowds
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"In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off."

Marx, Karl on evolution   

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

Nuveen, John on age and aging   

"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal."

Ferguson, Marilyn on change
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"Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim."

I Ching on change
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"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine."

Gallagher, Robert C. on change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination"

Isherwood, Christopher on life
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"Information collect on the subject of religion is worthless. Religion is, to the very end, something that you must verify for yourself through actual practice."

Morinaga Soko on religion   

"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin on religion
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on religion
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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" Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1975"

Sheen, Fulton John on children   

"Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Bierce, Ambrose on peace
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."

Burroughs, William S. on universe
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