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Michelle Shocked

"I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back."

-- Michelle Shocked

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“I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.”
“The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House
“America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.”
“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.”
“You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.”
“Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.”

Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.4, Bantam
“[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.”

Source : The Well of Loneliness ch. 37 (1928)
“Mike Pence is the hardest one to guess in 2020 as a leader, because I don't know if he is seen as the heir to the Donald Trump political movement or ig being the heir is a good thing.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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