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“May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?”
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“If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.”
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“The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.”
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“What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.”
Source : "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015. 
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“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”
Source : Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.9, Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.”
Source : Collected Logical Works Volume II An Investigation of the Law of Thought Chapter XVI (p. 258)
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“Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.”
