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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.
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There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.
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I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself.
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Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.
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Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
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