"The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement."

Identity, Truth, Death, Acceptance

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"The simple truth is that the only real 'ex-gay' person is a dead gay person - and even then I am not too sure about the validity of that statement."

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"I am not the river I am the net."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

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"What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you."

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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

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"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

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"Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity."

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"You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes."

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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them."

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"You are not what you want, you are what you have been made to be."

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"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."

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"The best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them."

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"I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom."

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"Humans are intelligent and resourceful. If we've been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that we could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago?"

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"In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives to make peace, is incompetent and unfit and should resign."

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"You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down."

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"Dominating others is not equality."

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"It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again."

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"The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other."

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"So, show the world, make it seeYou are you, and I am me."

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