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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag

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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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Society
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter. – Susan Sontag

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Psychology
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Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. – Susan Sontag

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Fear
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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. – John Barrymore

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Sex

I may not be a great actress but Ive become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little. – Candice Bergen

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Sex

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. – J. Edgar Hoover, attributed

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Sex

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. – J.G. Ballard, “News from the Sun,” Myths of the Near Future, 1982

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Sex

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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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Habits

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. – John D. Rockefeller

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Diplomacy

Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the first; but cannot promise for the latter. No one can rob you of the first without your consent; you may be deprived of the latter a hundred ways. – James Burgh, The Dignity of Human Nature: Book III. Of Virtue, 1754

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Virtue

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin. – John Philpot Curran

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smile