Quote by Barbra Streisand
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and atta

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our countrys immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. – Barbra Streisand

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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other. – Barbra Streisand

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strength
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – theyre gonna cough. – Barbra Streisand

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Truth
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. – Barbra Streisand

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

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AIDS

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. – Joel Hawes

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AIDS

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. – Princess Anne Ireland

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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

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There isnt any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know. – Ernest Hemingway

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Symbols

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller

I dont think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think its a choice, but in fact, its in ones nature. The choice is whether one expresses ones nature truthfully or spends the rest of ones life lying about it. – Marlo Thomas

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Society

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. – Ovid

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Jealousy