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They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Bayonne
New Jersey
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There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
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When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.
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[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.
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We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.
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