"It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

#Firsts Quotes #Belief Quotes #First Amendment Quotes

“I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.”
“I do love exercise. I do love yoga, which keeps my body nice and healthy.”
“Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.”
“I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.”
“What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.”

Source : John Gay (1893). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Translations, Prologues and epilogues, Fables, Poems from 'Gay's chair', Miscellaneous pieces, Songs and ballads”
“We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.”
“Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.”
“Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.”

Source : "Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?". www.opendemocracy.net. January 17, 2012.

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