"People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste."

-- Elton John

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“Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...”

Source : "Carmina". Book by Horace, I. 9. 13, 13 BC.
“Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.”
“We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".”

Source : "Integrity in Scientific Research". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1985.
“I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.”
“When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.”
“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.”
“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.”

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