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I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

Hugh Hefner

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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
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The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
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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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Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.
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If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex in books, magazines, movies and even everyday conversation, you aren't helping to make sex more private, just more hidden. You're keeping sex in the dark. What we've tried to do is turn on the lights.
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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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I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.
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Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.
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Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.
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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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