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To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

Margaret Cho

As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue.

Sheri L. Dew

For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.

South American

All the studies and all the research in the field of criminology affirm that prison education is the least expensive and most effective solution to overcrowding and strain on the budget caused by recevidism.

College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons

If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We’re better together than we are apart. The American Dream has us looking out for ourselves even at the expense of our neighbors. That shit ain’t true, man.

Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, ...

Eat, Pray, Love

If you have a deep inclination to transmute harm into help and be of benefit to others, whether they live next door or on the other side of the world, you will eventually be connected with the sources of energy and information that will assist your e...

Fearless Puppy on American Road

If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

The Great American Novel

The thought of going abroad makes my heart Leap," (Charles) Sumner wrote. "I feel, when I commune with myself about it, as when dwelling on the countenance and voice of a lovely girl. I am in love with .

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble.

Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.

Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends

One popular saying was, "The boy who goes into medicine is too lazy for farm or shop, too stupid for the Bar, and too immoral for the pulpit.

Bleed, Blister, and Purge: A History of Medicine on the American Frontier

But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.

A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

I don't think that American drivers going to NASCAR are taking the easy way out because as I said, the racing is amazing; it's just that it's easier to adapt to what you grow up with. American drivers grow up with NASCAR, they know NASCAR, and that's...

Jacques Villeneuve