"From our earliest beginnings, we have been a nation obsessed with sex, titillated by it at the same time that we fear it, elaborating rules to contain it at the same time that we violate them."

-- Lillian B. Rubin

#Sex Quotes #Obsessed Quotes #Has Beens Quotes

“The Buccaneers was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.”
“God inspired in the heart of the pure Virgin Mary His own intense love for humility...It was this humility which attracted to her the countless graces which rendered her worthy to be the Mother of God, Queen of heaven and earth.”
“Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.”
“I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.”
“I didn't go on dialysis because I was 81 years old and I'd done everything I wanted, or so I thought.”
“Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.”
“Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,”
“Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.”

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