"It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you."

--

Margery Allingham

“To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.”

Source : Diane Coyle (2002). “Sex, Drugs, & Economics: An Unconventional Introduction to Economics”, Texere Publishing
“Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.”
“Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.”
“It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
“Every time I embrace a black woman Iâ€™m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, Iâ€™m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of deathâ€¦. I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.”
“He should accept me as I am!â€ says the woman who is too nice. Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.”
“In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.”

Source : Tim LaHaye (2014). “Spirit-Controlled Temperament”, p.201, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”

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