"I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation,"

-- Jason Collins

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“New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.”
“The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.”

Source : Coleman Barks (2010). “The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins
“The orgy of thieving in Iraq has more to do with the character of the people than the absence of restraining troops. And to think that good, decent, law-abiding young British and American men and women laid down their lives to liberate this thieving mob.”

Source : The Sunday Express, May 04, 2003.
“I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2011.
“But our knowledge, the things we learn, can carry on in others after we are gone...The toil of this journey, our journey, is the map for those who will follow.”
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.211
“The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary”
“The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.”

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