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• For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.

  H. L. Mencken

  House, Would Be, Ill

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• We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Missing, Entertainment

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• You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Looks, Stuff

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. November 09, 2010.

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• I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Age

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Pages

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.475

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• Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Atheism, World

  "Religion's misguided missiles" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• There's a difference in our ages [with Leonardo DiCaprio], but we were both in the same sort of position [on The Quick and the Death movie].Everyone below us in a casting position were all these really famous character actors like Keith David. And they were looking at the two of us going, 'Who are these guys?' So that naturally kind of put us together in a way where we'd just hang out together because we didn't care about status. We just wanted to enjoy the experience. The two things that have changed about Leo [ DiCaprio] since that time: he can drink legally and he's no longer a virgin.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Two, Differences

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• I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

  St. Jerome

  Marriage, Unions, Praise

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• Humid seal of soft affections,
  Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
  Dearest tie of young connections,
  Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

  Robert Burns

  Kissing, Ties, Snow

  Robert Burns (1859). “The poetical works and letters of Robert Burns”, p.186

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• Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Moral, Old Fashioned

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• For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass
  Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist
  The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass.

  Allen Tate

  Glasses, Church, Twists

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.28, Macmillan

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• When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.

  Olympia Brown

  Women, Real, Character

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• What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

  Christina Stead

  Mother, Trying, Papa

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.498, The Miegunyah Press

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• More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Years, News, Remember

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• Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.85, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• That American Taliban kid Johnny Walker was indicted today. Ten counts of terrorism. He could get 5 life sentences. In Taliban terms, that's 360 virgins.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Today, Terrorism

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• Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Depth, Treasure, Helping

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Voice of the Silence”, p.13, BookRix

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• The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Science, Isis

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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• The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Direct Action, Space

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.237, Penguin

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• In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

  Henry Adams

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin

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• An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

  Henry Adams

  Venus, Dare, Command

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.377, Booklassic

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• [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
  [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Paris, World

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