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«A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
deepest, drowsy, electrified, electrify, electrifying, enkindled, enkindles, one species, reserves, species, tenderly
«Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species.»
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
biological, bonds, by and large, ceremony, courtship, economically, elaborate, elaborated, evolved, go together, insemination, insertion, mammal, mammals, mate, mounting, one species, rely, rituals, scarcely, seconds, social function, sole, species, term
«If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
aimed, low, settled, species, the universe
«For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.»
«Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
absurdities, blasphemies, blasphemy, contradictions, revealed, revealed religion, species, testament, testaments, The New
«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
convincing, destroying, devotes, feathers, flying start, futile, hunt, Hunt for, plucking, pushing, shudder, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, species, strident, survival, The Birds, the hunt, The Wings, tool, To Fly, train, train of thought, young bird
«Cities are the abyss of the human species»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Cities
| Keywords:
abyss, cities, human species, species, The Abyss
«An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.»
«[on Michael Jackson] Honey, you gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord Of The Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.»
Author: Robin Williams
| Keywords:
all of a sudden, Audrey Hepburn, beard, bearded, bearding, Black man, Black race, cast, Diana, Diana Ross, Hepburn, honey, Jackson, jump, Michael, Michael Jackson, of a sudden, rings, Ross, species, sudden
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