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We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

— Joycelyn Elders

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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, "Abstinence" [4.10], 5 June 2006

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We know that more than 70 to 80% of women masturbate, and 90% of men masturbate, and the rest lie.

We must stop this love affair with the fetus.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted.

If you say children wouldn't know anything about masturbation on their own, you've never changed a little boy's diaper.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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