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“Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.”
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“The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.”
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“Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.”
Source : Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”
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“There's a nice clear difference between real protection (wash your hands, or wear a condom) and the fake protection offered by institutions which often come, finally and sadly, to be much too interested first of all in protecting their own power.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work”
Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006. 
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“Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the mostâ€, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.”
Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
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“Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.”
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“The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.”
