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• The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

  John Ralston Saul

  Jobs, Expression, Rude

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Light, Heaven

  "Mark Twain's notebook".

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• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Art, Realizing

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• It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Women, Morality

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

  William Ralph Inge

  Grief, Stronger, World

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Mind, Enjoy

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• The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind.

  Louis Agassiz

  Mind, Study, Ecology

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• I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Intelligent, Men, Missing

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Violation, Synonym

  1987 Intercourse,'Occupation/Collaboration'.

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• Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

  Philip Larkin

  Firsts, Bans, Ends

  "Annus Mirabilis" l. 1 (1974)

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• The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

  C. S. Lewis

  Indulge In, Trying, Unions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Math, Leisure, Problem

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• [S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

  Crystal Eastman

  Mean, Feminist, Feminism

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• In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Choices, Feminist, My Own

  "They took my body from me and used it" by Andrea Dworkin, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2000.

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• I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Female, Details

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.342, Penguin

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• They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Firsts, Steps, Common

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers”, p.197, D. H. Lawrence

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• Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Telling The Truth, Should

  Alice Sebold (2009). “Lucky”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• [America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

  John Quincy Adams

  Practice, America, Independence

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.

  Muriel Barbery

  Compassion, Darkness, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Political, Unions

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.111, Coventry House Publishing

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• Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Pain, Color, Intellectual

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Ghost, Made, Interest

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.71, Bibliolis Books

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