"The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously...."

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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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“If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.192, Scholastic
“Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.”
“It's very good for you, riding. Every model is like, "I do yoga." I find horses have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move. So you have to use your body to help this horse do incredibly difficult movements that don't come naturally to it. And if something goes wrong, it's not the horse's fault; it's always your fault. So you have to be quite levelheaded. And then the whole nature aspect of it is very calming.”
“Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.”

Source : "Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.
“I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.”
“The old are in a second childhood.”
“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
“We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.”

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