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Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Hugh Hefner

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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women
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I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.
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I'm actually a very moral guy.
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You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.
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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
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It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.
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We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.
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After all the Puritans came to America to escape from persecution and then turned around and started persecuting other people. So I understand that conflict that we have related to play and pleasure and sexuality. And I think what has made my life worthwhile is trying to deal with some of those questions.
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I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.
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If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.
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The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
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Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
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America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.
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For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.
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