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  We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sea, Wave, Impulse

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Clever, Humorous

  "The Turtle" l. 1 (1931)

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• The fair sex is your department.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dr Watson, Department, Fairs

  "The Adventure of the Second Stain" (1904)

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• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Children

  Notebook, 1894

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• There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

  Billy Joel

  Witty, Peanut Butter, Jelly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Murder is illegal, but if you take a picture of it you may get your name in a magazine or maybe win a Pulitzer Prize. However, sex is legal, but if you take a picture of that act, you can go to jail.

  Larry Flynt

  Winning, Names, Jail

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• She could have a Grammy I'd still treat her ass like a nominee.

  Drake

  Relationship, Humorous, Dirty

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• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, World, Impossible

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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• I'm not a sex symbol.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Symbols, Sex Symbol

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• One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

  Norman Mailer

  Years, Making Love, I've Learned

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  Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• You need to understand how human beings bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and, indeed, to mate. In other words, you need to understand how ideas have sex.

  Matt Ridley

  Ideas, Brain, Together

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• The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

  Marvin Dunnette

  Motivation, Fighting, Brain

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• The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Men, Two

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1167, Booklassic

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• In sex one wants or does not want. And the grief, the sorrow of life is that one cannot make or coerce or persuade the wanting, cannot command it, cannot request it by mail order or finagle it through bureaucratic channels.

  Kate Millett

  Grief, Order, Sorrow

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

  Lucy Stone

  Mean, Humanity, Suffering

  Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.

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• Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Giving, Joy

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.119, Vintage

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• We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.

  Peter Menzel

  Stars, Children, Men

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• My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.

  Erica Jong

  Home, Long, Twenties

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• I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.

  Alex Linder

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

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• I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it I’m sure it would frighten me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Littles, Given

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• There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Important, World

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• I like Paris. They don't talk so much of money, but more of sex

  Vera de Bosset

  Travel, Money, Home

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• As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”

  Deborah Rhode

  Girl, Suicide, Jobs

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