#ria

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#armed forces #because #capable #chance #citizenship

The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#cargo #carriages #cheaper #containers #current

We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#important #insurgents #iraq #know #occurring

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#affairs #because #disappointment #divorced #end

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. ↗

— Jane Campion

#adult #attempted #big #complex #easily

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#church #controlling #especially #government #institution

President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#ask #bush #case #government #him

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#any #circumstance #control #different #every

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good. ↗

— Anselm of Canterbury

#because #give #good #highest #just

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. ↗

— John Updike

#consist #every #learner #marriage #peasant