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Quote by John Updike
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are message

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host. – Seneca

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The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. – Maria Montessori

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A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. – Llewelyn Powers

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The stronger the body, the more it obeys; the weaker the body, the more it commands. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

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The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. Theyve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. – Ron Chernow

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