"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie."

-- Jay Inslee

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“I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.”
“In one family, every little plan or question is discussed amid bickering and irritation. In another, without the least effort, every discussion goes on amid perfect peace. This is just as easy, and infinitely more agreeable: only, in many homes it does not happen to be the family habit.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”
“It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.”
“I didn't go to the cinemas a lot as a kid.”
“I can't possibly get into your knickers.”
“We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.”
“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”

Source : "The Kranz Dictum". Gene Kranz's address to his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster, January 30, 1967.

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