Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
Henry Miller
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GARY F EVANS... Homo homini lupis est.
PLAUTUS Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.
JONATHAN HAIDT Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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HAVELOCK ELLIS you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care...
TIM O'BRIEN The sex language;Is the only language only sex trully understands.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth
GERMAINE GREER The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.
GERMAINE GREER Love is the only gold.
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SOTONYE ANGA Dedication is the preparation to success!
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NATALIE URQUIETA Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
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WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
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JOHN UPDIKE I find it comical that people who live from paycheck to paycheck laugh at me when I mention an angel...
BOBBY W. MILLER Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.
MARCIA GAY HARDEN Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
CYRIL CONNOLLY True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
SADHU VASWANI True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
BRYANT H. MCGILL The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL “War is the only peace for ignorance. Peace is the only war for wisdom.”
EPHDAN A love lust for war ends in death...
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FERRAN SORIANO Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
CJ HECK Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.
GAIL HONEYMAN Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.
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RANDEEP HOODA The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
HENRY ROLLINS I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that eve...
BRIAN ENO The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
LANA TURNER In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH Every true artist is at war with the world.
ANTHONY KIEDIS The line between protected pornography and unprotected obscenity lies between appealing to a good he...
ANTONIN SCALIA The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
CYRIL CONNOLLY In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
ROBERT BRESSON Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. (All You Wanted To Know About Sex)
WOODY ALLEN Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.
ALICE COOPER Everybody lies about sex.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Attacking innocent people is always obscene.
AYMAN ODEH To live without duties is obscene.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true p...
RONALD REAGAN Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
AUDREY HEPBURN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
PAUL SWEENEY The true success is the person who invented himself.
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ROBIN JONES GUNN Love ? Love is when you are ready to do every possible and positive thing for someone,
SID War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
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HENRY MILLER Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was mean...
HENRY MILLER Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living ...
HENRY MILLER In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to c...
HENRY MILLER I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to...
HENRY MILLER You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet n...
HENRY MILLER الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يس...
HENRY MILLER el mundo nunca deja morir de hambre a una mujer guapa.
HENRY MILLER Es extraño. Había llegado a resignarme tanto a aquella vida sin ella y, sin embargo, si pensaba en...
HENRY MILLER Hay algo perverso en las mujeres... en el fondo son todas masoquistas.
HENRY MILLER There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy
HENRY MILLER We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
HENRY MILLER I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, ...
HENRY MILLER Sin, guilt, neurosis /they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way
HENRY MILLER Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...
HENRY MILLER One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifli...
HENRY MILLER