"There is no greater tyranny than that of social custom."

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“Human nature is intractable stuff, hard jagged stuff, the kind of stuff that dreams are wrecked on.”

“A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it.”

“The human desire to be understood is never quite sincere. It is on our own terms that we desire to be understood, not on the terms of truth.”

“Life is a reaching out for something or someone. That is its definition.”

“In this world death has a habit of intervening before we can pay our debts, and the only thing to be done is to pay them to another.”

“We all of us try to make God in our image. It is one of the worst of our temptations.”

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— Wahiduddin Khan

Social Activism1925–2021

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"Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. Not that I’m trying t…"

— Alan Moore

Literature1953

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"Again, every citizen should be trained sedulously by every activity at our command to realize his duty to the nation. In France at this moment the workingmen who are not at the front are spending all …"

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics1858–1919

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— James Cramer

Entertainment1955

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