Barry W. Lynn Quotes
I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I never said half the things I said.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.
