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The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

— Isabel Paterson The God of the Machine (1943)

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The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

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