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“I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.”
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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“Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.”
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“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
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[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
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“We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pull the ceiling down upon our own heads? There is a comfort in the familiar. Also, it is important to us to be in control because as children being abused we were not at all in control. In self-sabotage we can be both the victim & the victimizer.”
― Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
― Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
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