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Jay Michaelson

"I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be."

Source : "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

Jay Michaelson

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“Psychopaths view any social exchange as a â€˜feeding opportunity,â€™ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.”

Source : Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press
“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.”
“I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.”
“I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.”
“The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.”
“One must choose between loving women and knowing them.”
“The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.”
“The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.”

"I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be."

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