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. . . as long as Christ knew I wasn't a sissy, I had nothing to fear.

—Tiny Tim

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In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

—From Hindu Scriptures

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Saintliness is not dumbness. Divine perceptions are not incapacitating. The active expression of virtue gives rise to the keenest intelligence.

—Sri Yukteswar

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You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has, you've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't.

—Ram Dass, Grist for the Mill

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If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

—Michael Jay Tucker

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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large — especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life-and-death decisions for others — nor do I believe they should be made by a Church run by childless men.

—Julianna Baggott

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Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children — but we pay heavily for them every day. . . . All society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.

—Garrett Hardin

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In my world, you don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and be against common-sense gun control. . . . You don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency. . . . You don't get to call yourself "pro-life" and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health, and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children. . . . The term "pro-life" should be a shorthand for respect for the sanctity of life. But I will not let that label apply to people for whom sanctity for life begins at conception and ends at birth.

—Thomas L. Friedman

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How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet?

—George Carlin

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I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain, and life-long grinding poverty shows us that . . . we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

—Caitlin Moran

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A woman who has [an abortion] is almost always in a desperate situation, and her decision is not made lightly. She deserves Christian compassion, not . . . self-righteous scorn.

—Jean Peterman

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Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government.

—Hillary Rodham Clinton

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I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

—Ronald Reagan

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Abortion opponents love little babies as long as they are in somebody else's uterus.

—Joycelyn Elders

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You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

—Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

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