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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

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. – Tryon Edwards

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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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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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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. – Nathaniel Branden

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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports. – Mahesh Bhupathi

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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers. – Gary Bauer

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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. – William E. Gladstone, 1866

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