#intercourse

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse. ↗

— James Joyce

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. ↗

— Angela Carter

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