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• What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

  Henry Miller

  Sex, Together, World

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Capricorn”, Grove/Atlantic

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• Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Law, Cities

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• One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Communication, Loss

  Charles Horton Cooley (1912). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

  William James

  Happiness, Society, Politics

  Talks to Teachers (1899) "What makes a Life Significant?"

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• Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.127, City Lights Books

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• The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Brother, Father, Reading

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.18

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• The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pests, Baths, Bores

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.175, City Lights Books

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• Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

  George Washington

  Humanity, Harmony, Interest

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.232

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• Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

  William Matthews

  Teacher, Men, Lakes

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• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Drunk

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 166 (31 March 1772)

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• Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course.

  George Washington

  Mean, Hands, Order

  George Washington (1838). “Monuments of Washington's patriotism: containing a fac simile of his publick accounts kept during the revolutionary war; and some of the documents connected with his military command and civil administration; together with an eulogium on the character of Washington, by W. Jackson”, p.17

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• Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

  Rennie Ellis

  Food, Beer, Long

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• All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Beautiful, Men, Paris

  Peter Ackroyd (2001). “The Collection”, Random House Uk Limited

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• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, Real, War

  Carl von Clausewitz (1943). “On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles”

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• Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Order, Two

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• I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

  Oliver Sacks

  Gratitude, Feelings, Special

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

  Michael Kinsley

  Usa, Political, Half

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• The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Cells, Mind, Hospitality

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Soul, Tragedy

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Thinking, May

  Quoted in John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)

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• When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Two, Doors, Making Love

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• The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

  John Milton

  Spirit, Easy, Mortals

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.218

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• How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

  Aristotle

  Brother, Children, Father

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.27, Princeton University Press

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• Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Sensual, Joyous

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• He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.

  Maimonides

  Fall, Eye, Teeth

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