"If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones."

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“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”

“We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”

“As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.”

“We must stop this love affair with the fetus.”

“I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.”

“How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.”

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— Arun Shourie

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— Melania Trump

Politics1970

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"Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there."

— Richard Pryor

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"Well, you know or don't you kennet or haven't I told you every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it. Look, look, the dusk is growing!"

— James Joyce

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