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Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.


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History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.



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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.



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Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.



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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.



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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!



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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.



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Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones



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Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.



Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.



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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.





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