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I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.


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THOMAS SOWELL The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to c...
THOMAS AQUINAS Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK