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But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

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Samuel JohnsonA Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

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And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but has...

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Wilhelm ReichBeyond Psychology: Letters and Journals

Thus we arrive at the problem of the relation of religion to the negation of sexual desire. Sexual d...

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People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if yo...

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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

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He wants me to tell him about the front; he is curious in a way that I find stupid and distressing; ...

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Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environme...

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Jared DiamondCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would cha...

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All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppr...

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M
Marston BatesThe Nature Of Natural History