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- Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
- Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and…
- Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.
- Sex is more fun than cars but cars refuel quicker than men.
- Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most…
- Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.
- Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor…
- Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
- Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have…
- We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle