#then

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

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#blesses #church #city #city hall #civil

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. ↗

— Albert Camus

#appreciate #art #conducive #does #dream

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#authentic #creation #culture #even #freedom

But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#began #beginning #decline #dollar #fell

I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust? ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#bank #bank account #care #figured #find

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#africa #agriculture #based #between #build

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God. ↗

— James Brown

#believed #cause #couple #down #ever

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback. ↗

— Shawn Fanning

#feedback #first #friend #giving #had