"I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate."

-- Wilfred Owen

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“I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power â€” it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.”

Source : Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 277), 1982.
“What Iâ€™d like to teach my daughter about self-image and self-esteem is that youâ€™re beautiful on the inside and the outside, and not to get obsessed with pictures that are out there in magazines of skinny models.Â I had an eating disorder in college and wanted to look like those models and be thin.Â So Iâ€™ll probably share that experience with her and let her know that youâ€™re beautiful just the way you are.”
“What worse can happen to a man than to have been born? It's like asking a man who is drowning whether he is not afraid of getting wet.”
“It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.”

Source : Ousmane Sembène (1995). “God's Bits of Wood”, p.20, Heinemann
“If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim”
“On the Facebook side, I think it's a bit of an evolution, in that that company, which has clearly done amazing things, was, I believe, as an outsider looking in, was founded on a culture that was obsessive about the users. And they built a service that is very valuable for users, and that is to be applauded.”
“The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.”
“There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.”

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