#ip

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. ↗

— Pete Coors

#benefits #breweries #demonstrate #fly #gays

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#locks #many #mississippi #mississippi river #most

Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#finale #funny #hush-hush #love #nora-grey

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#definitely #different #different backgrounds #friendships #had

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#felt #find #genre #group #had

A relationship is a journey and many would think the destination is marriage. Well, no it is not! Marriage is another phase of the journey. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#relationships #marriage

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#categorized #chemicals #earthly #good #illegal

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#creatures #else #eternal #god #immutable

Let's think about living some day in a world made of friendship, with hearts beating with duty and feeling, and people and animals and trees and birds and lawns. We'll have a morality never written in a book. A morality that looks in surprise at what we do now and what we'll do in the future, what we think now and what we will think. Then we'll have a longer friendship, Bug-eyes. Then, don't worry. My friend Panço will agree. He won't talk about church morality. He'll tell his children about the extraordinary beauty of friendship. ↗

— Sait Faik Abasıyanık

#morality-without-religion #beauty

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed