"I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it."

-- Harvey Milk

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“The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.”
“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.”
“Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.”

Source : Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”
“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.Â As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.Â That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.Â When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.Â We call this the moment of death.Â That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”
“Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my house there's like a library and you just geek out on science fiction material. A lot of the colony worlds specifically are built as a melting pot of different societies, because the world is at a point where there are only two zones that are left inhabitable.”
“The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.”
“I get up at the same time every morning.”
“I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.”

Source : "Diane Warren: 'I've never been in love'". Interview With Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2009.

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