"To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“My best audience and where Iâ€™m happiest is in the gay community. Thatâ€™s where I feel the most accepted. Itâ€™s a community that appreciates pop culture like no other. For me, thatâ€™s where Iâ€™m home and I always want to come home.”
“It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.”
“My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.”
“Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another?”
“The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.”
“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.”
“I actually got really good at unicycling.”
“Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1948). “Love's coming of age; a series of papers on the relation of the sexes”

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