"I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married"

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Source : "Slowly, GOP shifting on same-sex marriage" by Margaret Hoover, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2013.

Rob Portman

#Believe Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Gay Quotes

“All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.”

Source : Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books
“God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.”

Source : Francis William Newman (1849). “The Soul, Her Sorrows and Her Aspirations: An Essay Towards the Natural History of the Soul”, p.111
“Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.”
“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

Source : "To My Daughters, With Love (My Neighbor's Son)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.
“I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.”
“For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.”
“When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.”

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