The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my… — Alan Loy McGinnis Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
“Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful.… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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