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«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.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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amoral, archaic, exceeds, mop, mopping, mops, overflow, patrons, pornographer, pornographers, prostitution, service industry, Supply and demand, testifies
«The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.»
Author: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
(Journalist, Writer)
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correspondingly, fury, No limit, on the other hand, overflow, run away, vindictiveness
«Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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Poetry
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emotion, feelings, origin, overflow, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, poetry, recollected, recollects, spontaneous, tranquility
«The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.»
«Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.»
«The LORD spake also unto me again, saying, / Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; / Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: / And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.»
«When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
burned, Fire and Water, flame, kindle, overflow, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, rivers, the fire, The Flame, waters
«One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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hearts, overflow, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, sponge, Sponges, wants
«Tender pauses speakThe overflow of gladness,When words are all too weak.»
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