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My response to those who claim life is so damn precious...

One's life is only as precious as those around one, and those in power, deem it to be. - DML/2024

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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides - André Malraux

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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. - Niccolò Machiavelli

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You are not a TRUE dog lover unless you've sat in the shade of a big ol' tree on a warm summer day, and shared your ice cream cone - lick for lick - with man's best friend. -DML/2023

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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. ALWAYS. -unk

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Empathy seems only to exist among those of one's own kind, as long as one of that kind is not different... -DML

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LGBTQ~ Republicans: How do you associate yourself with a group that, in general, is more likely to hate you than to accept you as a productive human being and rightful member of society? -DML/July 2017

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Growing up, I remember hearing people say that one's life was planned out before one was born. Pretty plucked up that, not only did I have no say in what path I would follow...I was put on a path to hell with no alternate routes, and no places of sanctuary.  --DML

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"Each of us has a deep need to be witnessed by others for whom we are. Each of us wants to see ourselves mirrored in others' eyes as we see ourselves." - Aaron H. Devor, Ph.D.

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This world will never be safe for anyone who is different until those who have issue with difference, change. -DML/2018

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Time change serves no one except those who have nothing better to do with their time. -DML/2012

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"Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes, God bless little children while they're still too young to hate" -Old Dogs, Children & Watermelon Wine --Tom T. Hall

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Let there be light...and BLIND the unenlightenable! --DML/2006

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I don't so much quote passages from the Bible because I subscribe to them - I quote passages from the Bible to remind those who claim they do. --DML/May 2013

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If life hands you lemons, throw those little yellow lip-puckering, jaw-shocking, eye-squinching b@$T@®d$ back !! --DML 5/2013

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Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius

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All progress occurs because people dare to be different. --unk

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Don't presume that I might share the dessert that I ordered, bringing two forks (or spoons) with it. If I was gonna share, I'd have asked you to bring an extra plate! --DML/2014

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I sometimes wonder

if "comfortably numb"

is a state I often

slip into

to survive

DML-1/2015

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Grammar fails to express what gender dysphoria feels like. -- Catherine McGregor

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"When you think of how few people have killed and destroyed in the name of the devil; and how many have done so in the name of God; it makes you think." - Janet (Mrs.) Asimov

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"...fly me higher through the starry skies - maybe to an astro plane... cross the highways of fantasy, help me t' forget today's pain..." --Gary Wright, from the album, Dream Weaver

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