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“Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.”
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“Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”
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“When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.”
Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Jul 12, 2011
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“A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.”
Source : Discovery (published 1964).
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“See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the surface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.”
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“As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,… a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.”
Source : "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.
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“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.”
Source : John R. Claypool (2004). “Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief”, p.12, Church Publishing, Inc.
