"I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

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“Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.”
“It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.”
“There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!”
“For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity was mostly negative, and my sense of identity was also mostly negative, although I tried hard to prove to myself and to the world that I was good enough by working very hard academically. But even after I had achieved academic success, I was happy for two weeks or three and then the depression and anxiety came back.”
“We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.”
“People are pretty strange.”

Source : "'Walking dead' star Norman Reedus teases 'it doesn't look good for Daryl'" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. December 12, 2012.
“I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.”
“When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.”

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