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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#country #defines #exercise #fact #founding

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#believe #better #between #children #committed

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed. ↗

— Chick Corea

#existed #magnificent #most #musical #musical sounds

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#anymore #anyone #anything #going #i

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#compass #country #disappointed #i #i think

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#celebrity status #fit #into #kind #like

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #composer #every #glad #grew

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it. ↗

— Bob Corker

#always #dad #gonna #imprinted #just

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release. ↗

— Roger Corman

#every #film #films #get #got

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#across #blasted #built #creek #dam