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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

Other quotes by Tryon Edwards

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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Death
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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AIDS

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

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AIDS

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. – James Anderton

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AIDS

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. – Thom Gunn

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AIDS

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