#ex

We learn from failure, not from success! ↗

— Bram Stoker

#experience #learning #mistakes #records #wisdom

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ... ↗

— John Irving

#equality

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust. ↗

— Janette Oke

#faith #love #love-comes-softly #romance #experience

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting-problems #degrading #demeaning #equal #equality

If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too ↗

— Paul Martin

#same-sex-marriage #equality

I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#gay-and-lesbian #lgbt-rights #same-sex-marriage #equality

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#equality #fact #humiliation #merely #nonsense

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #experience

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#no-excuses #reaction #equality

To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic [...] or homosexual love that intense, that penetrating, and at times overmastering character which would entitle it to rank as a great human passion. But in truth this view, when entertained, arises from a want of acquaintance with the actual facts. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#homophobia #homosexuality #ignorance #love #passion