"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis."

-- Sigmund Freud

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“I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.”
“Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.”

Source : Philip Reeve (2011). “Fever Crumb”, p.168, Scholastic Inc.
“No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.”
“America's corporations learned long ago that equality is just good business and is the right thing to do,”

Source : "Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein Appears in Same-Sex Marriage Ad" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 02, 2012.
“I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.”
“It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.”
“Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind”
“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.”

Source : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

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