Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy."
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Celibacy
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God."
Roger Lewis
Musician
"I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another."
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"It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life."
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"It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent."
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"I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness."
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"I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine."
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"Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me."
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