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The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
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The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
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There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
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The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
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In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
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The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
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The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.
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Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
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