Quotes

D thru F

"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt." - Clarence Darrow

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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete. - Bette Davis

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"I see - she's the original good time that was had by all." - Bette Davis

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"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies." - Bette Davis, Diva

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"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." - Moshe Dayan

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That's bizarre to me. Maybe it's because they're young. Maybe it's because they don't know what it's like to lose 87 of their friends like I do. But it's an incredibly stupid view to have. It's incredibly stupid to have unsafe sex. It's beyond stupid. It's imbecilic. When I see people doing it, I just want to smack them over the head with a hammer. I feel like saying, "You want AIDS? Here -- I'll just inject you with it myself! Here -- let me strap your arm, and inject you with the fucking virus, because you're pissing me off!" - Lea DeLaria in A&U Magazine

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"When the Nazis went after gays in Nazi Germany--the rights of gays were inexorably intermeshed with the interests of Jews. Discrimination against gays today is discrimination against Jews tomorrow." - Alan Dershowitz, criminal lawyer and author, 1991

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -- Rene Descartes

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"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it." -- Madame de Stael

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"Also amongst our challenges is to break the silence to which we fall prey between these international conferences" - Dr. Mandeep Dhaliwal, AIDS2000 Closing Ceremony.

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"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that." - Diana, Princess of Wales

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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." - Dorothea Dix

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies. - John Donne

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"But isn't it un-American if the University of Michigan or Yale makes special room for the descendants of alumni but not the descendants of the disadvantaged?" - Maureen Dowd

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"The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays." - Clint Eastwood

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Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. - Arnold Edinborough

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

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"Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss." - Dwight D. Eisenhower(1890-1969), American Army General,supreme Allied commander WWII, NATO commander, US President from 1953-1961

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"It's you straights who have all the special rights. You straights have the special right to marry. You straights have the special right to be in the military, go out on a date with the person you love, talk about it the next day, and not get kicked out for it. You straights have the special right not to be prevented from visiting your loved one in the hospital.... To say that gays and lesbians are asking for special rights is the height of lunacy." - Elijah Elders

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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. -- Elizabeth I, English ruler - in a speech, 8 Aug 1588, to her troops on the approach of the Spanish Armada.

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"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" - Linda Ellerbee

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"Co-dependence is taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel." - Linda Ellerbee

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"Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned" - Jane Elliott

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"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." - Havelock Ellis

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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. - Epictetus

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. - Epictetus

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"One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order." - the religious right's Family Research Council.

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"Consider tying a red ribbon around the throat of your least-favorite politician (e.g., Jesse Helms) until his eyes bulge and he turns blue." - David B. Feinberg, Writer

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By the end of the year 2000 the whole world will be homosexual! -Federico Fellini.

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"English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas." - Miriam "Ma" Ferguson (Governor of Texas, 1924)

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"My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change." - Harvey Fierstein

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"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too." - Malcolm Forbes

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"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." - Saint Francis of Assisi

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"The average American is less homophobic than he thinks he's supposed to be and more racist than he's willing to admit". - Barney Frank, US Rep. D-Mass.

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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin (Historical Review of Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania)

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"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." - Benjamin Franklin

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"Fool don't put him in irons, put him in the infantry." - Frederick the Great, hearing that a good looking soldier had been arrested for "Beastiality with his horse."

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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis. - Sigmund Freud

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"I can be butch when I have ti - I get it from my mother." - Peter Friedman, in Single White Female

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"Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total... Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complicated social machine to administer the technical machine he built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his own creations, and has lost ownership of himself." - Erich Fromm

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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - R. Frost

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"I can't understand any discussion of gays and lesbians as if they were something immoral or unsatisfactory--they're doing just what nature wants them to do." - Buckminster Fuller, architect and writer

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