"The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat."

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Source : Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

Mary Roach

#Sex Quotes #Home Quotes #Years Quotes

“Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.”
“People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.”
“The theory of government changes with general progress.”
“I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.”
“[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.”
“I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.”
“Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.”
“A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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