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The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

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Andrew Sullivan
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 10
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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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A mind is a wonderful thing to change.
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I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.
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I enjoy being around people who disagree with me and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
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Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
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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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I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.
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You just have to keep going. I mean I think our job, my job, is to keep articulating that I exist and that there are lots of people like me exist and we just have no home.
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I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
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