"A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms."

-- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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“When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.”
“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”
“We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to make up for hundreds of years of persecution. We have to give hope to that poor runaway kid from San Antonio. They go to the bars because churches are hostile. They need hope! They need a piece of the pie!”
“Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
“Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.”
“With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.”
“My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.”

Source : "Buffalo boy" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
“Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.”

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