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“All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”
Source : To-Day Interview, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200, 1894.
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“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
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“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
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“The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.”
Source : Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.63, Macmillan
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“During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.”
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“The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.”
Source : "Mugabe uses UN forum to compare Blair to Mussolini" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2005. 
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“Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.”
Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
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“Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.”
