"Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure."

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Source : "Hero Federal Appeals Judge Burns Down the Case Against Gay Marriage" by Michelle Dean, gawker.com. September 5, 2014.

Richard Posner

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“For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.”
“If you wear things you adore, you just look better.”
“A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.”
“For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.”
“Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.”
“Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.”

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