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Tag Name "Abstinence" (85)

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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it the old Christian rule is, Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.
C. S. Lewis
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The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.
Cecile Richards
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You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.
Jake LaMotta
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine
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If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.
Jason Evert
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Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!
Anton Szandor LaVey
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Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.
Thucydides
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While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.
Isuna Hasekura
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Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self.
Dietrich von Hildebrand
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When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.
Jason Evert
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Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.
Richard Dawkins
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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
Saint Augustine
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
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Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
Rachel Maddow
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I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.
Michael Stipe
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The fact is, there's no such thing as The Age of Abstinence.
Lizz Winstead
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Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !
Benjamin Franklin
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Samuel Butler
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A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
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Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man to treat your daughter one day. By listening to your conscience in this way, you'll have a good idea of where to draw the line.
Jason Evert
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
Seneca the Younger
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Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.
Elif Safak
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Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Mason Cooley
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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