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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. (Alfred Kinsey)
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. View quote
Henry Miller
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. View quote
Robert McNamara
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. View quote
Emil Cioran
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. View quote
Joseph Addison
A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. View quote
William Penn
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. View quote
Robert Browning
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise. View quote
George Herbert
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. View quote
George Herbert
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. View quote
George Herbert
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed. View quote
William Whewell
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. (George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax)
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. View quote
Henry Fielding
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
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