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“So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.”

Should Seems Purpose Causes Animal Car Survival Female Species Males Finals Possession Active Strongest Receiving Contests Exclusive Horns Adversaries Thrust Chivalry Stags

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.”

Matter Purpose Produce Female Males Aids Reproduction Dubious Retaining

Book:SCUM Manifesto

Source: SCUM Manifesto

“Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So tragically, they'll never have another chance to play badminton unless they get invited to a picnic.”

Trying Play Bigs Funny Purpose Loses Chance Player Female Eight Olympics Invited Scandal Picnics Another Chance London Olympics Badminton

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.”

Purpose Heaven Wish Beauty Female Vanity Beloved Great Gifts

Book:Helen: A Tale

Source: Helen: A Tale

“The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.”

Used Purpose Liberty Sacrifice Atheism Fool Female Victim Males Positive Atheism Flesh Priests Intestines

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.”

Men May Has Beens Used Purpose Causes Women Moral He Man Behavior Female Sexism Categories Masculinity Misguided Harlots

Author:Margaret Truman Daniel

“After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.”

Men Trying Doe Purpose Pleasure Keys Civilization Demand Female Islam Western Deny Guarantees Distinction Misogyny Pillars Slender Mutilation

Author:Mark Steyn

“[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Play Purpose Song Sides Comfort Thousand Bed Men And Women Female Argument Males Scripture Enjoyment Companion Peculiar Adam Rapture Cords Milton Augustine Thinking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.”

Humans Body Together Purpose Certain Results Design Female Males Obvious Human Body

Author:Rick Warren

“Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.”

Source: Soul Stories

“Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.”

Firsts Two Whole Lasts Purpose Sex Pleasure Numbers Greater Equal Female Thirds Embrace Raised Males Congress Contrast Organs Theorems Procreation

Book:Arcadia

Source: Arcadia

“Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.”

Knows Men Should May States Reason Purpose White Wife Female Privilege Fallen Native Virtuous Native American Fullness Posterity Priesthood Polygamy Gentiles Anointing

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.