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DONNA BRAZILE I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.
BARBET SCHROEDER There is no sexuality that is greater or lesser than another.
JASMINE GUY There was so much happening, but there was no support for it in the city — no feeling of pride or a...
MEGAN JASPER Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
ED STOPPARD It shows ineptitude. There's no understanding of how to pass a legislative agenda.
BILL LONDRIGAN Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one...
LA'PORSHA RENAE If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&...
JON MEACHAM Why not look instead for evidence of cowardice, secrecy, and dishonesty -- the traits displayed by s...
FRANCIS DEBERNARDO The bishops of the church have never taken responsibility for their role in the sex abuse crisis. Al...
FRANCIS DEBERNARDO The investigation of U.S. seminaries for 'evidence of homosexuality' continues the pattern of smoke-...
FRANCIS DEBERNARDO People have only just started to focus in on [sexuality studies], to see it as having sustained impo...
HEATHER LOVE History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon...
CAMILLE PAGLIA This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundar...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Equality has a hard time in humanity. Race, sexuality, or creed has always divided societies.
KAT LAHR I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly present...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
BILL COSBY That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked
BILL COSBY That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
BILL COSBY Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of ...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or ...
BRAND BLANSHARD Homosexual people should be entitled to the same rights as any citizen of the People's Republic of C...
LI YINHE We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give yo...
ROBERT MUGABE I have no understanding of motivations or politics.
ANGLICAN BISHOP ROBERT DUNCAN It shows the pope is not obsessed with the past, but is keeping his options open and is willing to d...
HANS KUENG Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is no...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's n...
RICHARD SERRA They said they have no intelligence, and I don't believe that, ... The Vatican refuses totally to co...
CARLA DEL PONTE Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It ha...
DAN SIMMONS Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures ...
ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is a...
JESSICA VALENTI Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there...
GODFRIED DANNEELS Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have b...
EUGENE KENNEDY There is no such thing as brilliance or stupidity; everyone has a unique mind and each thought gener...
RYAN KIER Homosexuality is a discovery, not a choice or a sin.
VANGIE JONES No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in...
THOMAS CARLYLE By appointing their own bishops hastily and illegally, they [the Patriotic Catholic Association] tri...
CARDINAL ZEN No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
PLATO Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality
SIGMUND FREUD But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin inclu...
REGGIE WHITE The Bible is real clear that homosexuality is an abomination to God. So to put a homosexual on the s...
TOM LAWSON This is the most important art exhibit that has ever come to Milwaukee. It features world-class art ...
DAN FINLEY She's shows good understanding of how to direct her hits. And she passes the ball well.
KARI ROSENBERG It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to sil...
MICHEL FOUCAULT The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious inst...
IAN CALDWELL I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.
RICK SANTORUM The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and ...
JOE SOLMONESE There has been a significant shift in the support for gay rights here. There's a growing sense that ...
STEPHEN KLINEBERG You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that ...
CAMERON MONAGHAN His attack focused on companies formed 20 years ago that either did no business or had no tax due. I...
DAN PATRICK If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty
JAPANESE PROVERB It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
THOMAS PAINE I think that Francis Marion did the same.
GARY HALL I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and ...
BEN FELDMAN We have repeated our position on relations with the Vatican many times. There is no change in our po...
LIU JIANCHAO Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now a...
IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA He's a bright guy, and he has a good understanding of what we are dealing with here, ... He was uneq...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER The new agreement shows that both sides are committed to their earlier understanding and to implemen...
ARJUN NARSINGH I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO Understanding” may become “misunderstanding”, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assu...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the bigge...
REGGIE WHITE The Vatican takes your breath away.
JOE ELLIOTT All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or c...
ANGELINA JOLIE So we must not refer a history of sexuality to the agency of sex; but rather show how "sex" is histo...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
SAM AUSTIN The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection.
MIKE LEW But, ... he shows no inclination of doing anything like that.
DOUGLAS MUZZIO I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER Part of the answer, ... has to do with creating support systems at home that are adequate, and part ...
LARRY MAGID I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER understanding is the absence of the demand for understanding -- now or tomorrow.
U.G. KRISHNAMURTI What our study shows is that children have a fundamental understanding of addition and of numbers an...
ELIZABETH SPELKE My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.
ALICE BAG I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.
DOUGLAS ADAMS New York's Fulton Street is the Vatican City of fish markets.
DAVID MICHAELIS A vote of no confidence shows that you've become aggravated to the point of no return.
DON HALE No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
THOMAS CARLYLE For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting i...
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Nissan is no stranger to Tennessee. Our understanding of the business climate here has been formed b...
CARLOS GHOSN The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we ...
NIKOLA TESLA I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll
ELTON JOHN O'Brien is well-connected and probably knows what the thinking in Rome is, ... Officially, he's not ...
JAMES HITCHCOCK What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS On one hand there is no association between mental illness and homosexuality. On the other hand, we ...
GILBERT HERDT The Vatican should now open its archives.
ABRAHAM LEHRER Life's irony;The West embrace homosexuality & lesbianism,but detest polygamy,but Africa embrace poly...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t ...
DAN PEARCE Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of u...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a...
PETER KREEFT There was a bit of a backlash against Francis at that point,
MATT DILLON To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals f...
AMY BLOOM Fran...
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
ROSANNA ARQUETTE While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...
HENRY ROLLINS When we're drawing up plays on the board, he's like, 'Coach, can we do this or do that?' He has a gr...
CRAIG AUKERMAN But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ...
ROBERT SARAH Over the last twenty or thirty years, which in the scheme of things is fast, we've become comfortabl...
TOM FORD Binary approach is an obsolete school of thought in the process of structuring human perception towa...
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FRANCIS BACON The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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