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A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.


John Norman

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NORMAN PODHORETZ If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
NORMAN DOUGLAS One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's...
NORMAN MAILER Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been...
NORMAN BORLAUG Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer...
NORMAN BORLAUG There are no miracles in agricultural production.
NORMAN BORLAUG Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i...
NORMAN LINDSAY Men aren't able to retire and are going bankrupt making alimony payments.
RALPH NORMAN Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
NORMAN MAILER The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the...
NORMAN BORLAUG I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of cou...
NORMAN ROCKWELL The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have,...
NORMAN MCLAREN With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather ...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF