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Quotation Quotient

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By Arlen Grossman

    "In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. Some BDSM practitioners prefer a code of behavior that differs from SSC and is described as risk aware consensual kink , indicating a preference for a style in which the individual responsibility of the involved parties is emphasized more strongly, with each participant being responsible for his or her own well-being. Softcore pornography generally contains nudity or partial nudity in sexually suggestive situations, but without explicit sexual activity, sexual penetration or extreme fetishism, while hardcore pornography may contain graphic sexual activity and visible penetration, including unsimulated sex scenes. Transsexual pornography features transwomen performers, who typically have male genitalia and augmented female breasts . This is why video stores might consider stocking transgendered subject matter in the straight section, as some straight men will have passive or active sex with another man as long as their partner appears to look like a woman to them, to some minor or major degree. Big Beautiful Woman is a euphemism for an overweight woman and is frequently used in the context of fat fetishism. A pearl necklace is a slang term referring to a sexual act in which a man ejaculates semen on or near the neck, chest, or breast of another person. Sometimes special furniture free celebrities sex tapes is used, such as a queening stool or smotherbox. BDSM has become an umbrella term for certain kinds of erotic behavior between consenting adults. Unlike Yaoi, Bara is normally made by actual homosexual men, for homosexual men, and tends to focus on the more realistic obstacles and challenges that come with being homosexual in Japan. Group sex is sexual behavior involving more than two participants. It may also involve touching, rubbing, or pinching the nipples or other erogenous zones while masturbating. The stimulation may involve hands, fingers, everyday objects, sex toys or combinations of these. Along with the penis, the scrotum is sensitive and considered to be an erogenous zone. Enema pornography involves adults given enemas to others, often fake. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm." - Isaac Rosenfeld. 

    1. "The Roman government gave them bread and circuses. Today we give them bread and elections."

    A. Will Durant

    B. Nero

    C. George Gallup

     

    2. "In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it's a great relief."

    A. Michelle Duggar

    B. John Barrymore

    C. Robinson Crusoe

     

    3. "And in the streets the children screamed/ The lovers cried and the poets dreamed/ But not a word was spoken/ The church bells all were broken/ And the three men I admire most/ The Father Son and Holy Ghost/ They caught the last train for the coast/ The day the music died."

    A. Bob Dylan

    B. Don McLean

    C. Buddy Holly

     

    4. "Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime."

    A. Red Auerbach

    B. Red Barber

    C. Red Skelton

     

    5. “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”

    A. Susan B. Anthony

    B. Mary J. Blige

    C. Carl Sandburg

     

    6. “There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.”

    A. Anaïs Nin

    B. Mitch McConnell

    C. Karl Marx

     

    7. "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

    A. Margaret Mitchell

    B. Bertrand Russell

    C. Mahatma Gandhi

     

    8. "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

    A. Thomas Jefferson

    B. Abbie Hoffman

    C. Al Roker

     

    9. "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." 

    A. Yogi Berra

    B. Mark Twain

    C. Vladimir Nabokov

     

    10. "Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest."

    A. H. G. Wells

    B. Norman Bates

    C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


     

    Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-B , 4-C , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 10-C

    Scoring:              

    10 – QQQQ = Quote-Master   

    8-9 – QQQ = Scholar                      

    6-7 – QQ = Literate

    4-5 – Q = Semi-Literate

    0-3 – No Q = Quote-Dunce

     

    BONUS QUOTE:

    "In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm." - Isaac Rosenfeld. (Rosenfeld, 1918-1956, was a Jewish-American writer and member of the New York literary elite.)

     

    Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, Calif., and welcomes comments at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Enjoy more quizzes at quotationquotient.com.

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