"The reason there are so many gyms in London is because the amount of gay people who are here now."

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“I think some bacteria have better lives than that”

“Now Hilda, she was your bog standard old woman.”

“If you had 5 photos of anuses, I could not point mine out”

“You know that guy Richard Blackwood? He went in for a colonic, live TV. Never seen again.”

“Whats good with a holiday right.. say if you work in a factory from 8 in the morning till 8 at night, packin socks into a rubber bag right.. between 8 and.. what time did i say he finishes?”

“If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about. - Karl interprets the phrase Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”

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"the key reason, the sole reason, that I was forced to retire. I was essentially not offered another position in either a three-star or four-star command."

— Ricardo Sanchez

Military1953

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"We must include that harmful and never sufficiently denounced freedom to publish any writings whatever and disseminate them to the people, which some dare to demand and promote with so great a clamor.…"

— Pope Gregory XVI

Religion1765–1846

#freedom

"Being a Chicana is a political, societal, economic and spiritual stance for me because I identify myself with the struggle of Chicanos in this marginal border world of identity—straddling different wo…"

— Denise Chávez

Literature

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"Allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to em…"

— Michael Badnarik

Social Activism1954–2022

#freedom