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In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America—and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
– Robert A Heinlein

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  2. His suppressed grief becomes anger. But what can he do with anger? It must also be suppressed. – Hilary Mantel
  3. Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation – Robert Motherwell
  4. No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. – Timothy Snyder
  5. Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century. – Laurie R King
  6. Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. – Francis A Schaeffer
  7. The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. – William MacDonald
  8. Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan
  9. There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. – Margot Lee Shetterly
  10. Psychotherapy isn’t a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process. – Patricia Love
  11. The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. – Susan Wise Bauer
  12. As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. – Thomas Sowell
  13. I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal. – JD Salinger
  14. …to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself. – Virginia Woolf
  15. I’m always suspicious of disinterested interest. – Robert A Heinlein
  16. I felt in some ways we’d had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words… – Lily King
  17. Any feeling, emotion or impulse that originates from the ‘mind’ can never be suppressed. – Deep Trivedi
  18. Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something -¦ he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent. – Girdhar Joshi
  19. It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
  20. Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
  21. The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger. – Robert A Heinlein
  22. In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere. – Dejan Stojanovic
  23. All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  24. The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast – Staind
  25. That’s the place to get to-”nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere. – DH Lawrence
  26. It’s the closest place to nowhere that she can think of. And nowhere is exactly where she wants to be today. – Lisa Genova
  27. I know where nowhere is, I know where nowhere leads, it’s the place you go when you have nothing left to lose but you. – Jenim Dibie
  28. She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all. – Alan Dean Foster
  29. I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It’s a common failing. – Robert A Heinlein
  30. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. – Pericles
  31. Entrepreneurship is the use of self-interest in the service of others. Politics is the use of others in the service of self-interest. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
  32. Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men. – Thaddeus of Vitovnica
  33. The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you. – Lindsey Rietzsch
  34. Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
  35. It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST! – Stan Jacobs
  36. Humans don’t have any type of interest… HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN THEM. – Deyth Banger
  37. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
  38. Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex. – Bryan Lee OMalley
  39. Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. – Laurell K Hamilton
  40. This century faded-”as did the last several-”and she was Aphrodite again, goddess of lust and pleasure and sex, and she was home. – Liz Meldon

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