"When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out."

-- Kate Clinton

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“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
“In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.”
“I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand”
“I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.”
“I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!”
“There's nothing to stop a man from writing unlessÂ that manÂ stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will.Â Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longerÂ he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of risingÂ water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laughÂ as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fireÂ the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter,Â you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.”
“You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.”
“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

Source : "Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

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