"I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution."

-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Believe Quotes #Defense Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
“I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to itâ€”an I.Q. or the like.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”
“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”

Source : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11
“Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.”
“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
“Much had he read, Much more had he seen; he studied from the life, And in th' original perus'd mankind.”

Source : John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.119, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
“As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.”
“Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.”

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