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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.
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When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.
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The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
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There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics but the sides are clear enough.
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I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
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