"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
-Havelock Ellis
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"Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.“
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"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."
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"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
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