#pro

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#america #any #before #disease #early

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. ↗

— Ted Allen

#even #everyone #favorite #favorite things #go

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. ↗

— Tom Allen

#continue #die #ensure #estate #estate tax

I am much more interested in the process than results. ↗

— Ted Allen

#i #i am #interested #more #much

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. ↗

— Tom Allen

#easily #harm #i #i think #moral

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. ↗

— Tom Allen

#national #plants #pollution #power #power plants

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. ↗

— Tom Allen

#both #civil #civil rights #laws #protect

What I do in my book is let people know about these programs. ↗