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Quote Left Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night. Quote Right
Quote Left Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian. Quote Right
Quote Left The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. Quote Right
Quote Left America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a ... Quote Right

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Quote Left We cannot know the beheaded god nor his eyes’ forfeited visions. But still the figure’s trunk glows with the strange vitality of a lamp lit from within, while his composed will emanates dynamism... ('Archaic Torso of Apollo' by Rainer Maria Rilke, loose translation by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left Killing people to get our own way is an archaic and absurd practice. We should be able to resolve our conflicts through speech. The pen is mightier than the sword Quote Right

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