Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals."
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Prostitution
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love."
Emma Goldman
Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from."
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"Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks."
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"Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else."
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