“ Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ”
- Ingrid Newkirk- Copy
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“ The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ”
- Samuel Lover- Copy
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“ I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. ”
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth- Copy
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“ Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it. ”
- Thomas Taylor- Copy
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“ In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Ignorance is like the itch — the less you have of it the better off you are. ”
- Harry Mendelson- Copy
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“ Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. ”
- the Duchess of Windsor- Copy
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“ We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job… ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff… ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract… ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
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