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If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex. Charles Caleb Colton
sex missing style
Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.
sex mirrors improvement
No improvement that takes place in either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other.
sex powerful revenge
Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.
sex vanity rivals
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.
sex character men
He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else. Charles Dickens
sex men years
No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me. Alanis Morissette
sex compassion animal
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. Alan Watts
sex teenager serious
Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
morality
Morality is but the vestibule of religion. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
morality credibility knows
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality. Bob Hawke
morality common
Morality has nothing in common with politics. Bob Dylan
morality obsolete objections
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete. Brian Aldiss
morality individual source
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation? Asghar Farhadi
morality
Morality is not only taught; it is caught. Neil Kurshan
morality creationism meaninglessness
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. Aldous Huxley
morality thou thousands thy
Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! Robert Burns
morality
Morality is moral only when it is voluntary. Lincoln Steffens
ideology matter process shaping unsure
No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government. Brad Henry
ideology publishing
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology. Barry Eisler
ideology local marx produced provided task turn
Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement. George Rockwell
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I think it's time we had a senator who wasn't pushing a narrow, intolerant ideology that says 'I'm right, you're wrong and you don't know better.
ideology macho mixture violence
Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status..., Joschka Fischer
ideology mines
You have your ideology and I have mine. Khalil Gibran
ideology impose seeks society
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society. Maajid Nawaz
ideology liked norman trust
I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.
ideology prolonged remains tackle time violence
The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem, Thaksin Shinawatra