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“I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same-sex couples were looking for.”

Source : "Maryland legislators pass gay marriage bill" by Ian Duncan, articles.latimes.com. February 23, 2012.
“Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.”
“In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.”
“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.9, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.”
“The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.”
“A catâ€™s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,â€ Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. â€œYou just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.â€ Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.”
“[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”

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