"Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping."

-- Jon Anderson

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“I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.”
“Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.”
“In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.”

Source : "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.
“In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.”
“It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.”
“What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.”

Source : "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.
“Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.”
“God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.”

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