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• The cultural ban on having sex with your friends is an inevitable offshoot of a societal belief that the only acceptable reason to have sex is to lead to a monogamous marriagelike relationship.

  Dossie Easton

  Sex, Belief, Reason

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• The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Niqab, Veils, Body

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• If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?

  Bishop Noel Jones

  Christian, Islamic, Gay

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• Although cohabitating same-sex couples are prohibited from jointly adopting children under Utah law as a result of the same-sex marriage ban, the record shows that nearly 3,000 Utah children are being raised by same-sex couples. Thus childrearing, a liberty closely related to the right to marry, is one exercised by same-sex and opposite-sex couples alike, as well as by single individuals.

  Carlos F. Lucero

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• There is another part of his policy that we`re unclear about, which is how - whether he`s going to stick to this proposal to ban Muslim immigrants. It is amazing that we`re less than 70 days away from the election and we`re all waiting with kind of baited breath to find out what is [Donald] Trump`s immigration policy, right?

  Michelle Goldberg

  Waiting, Sticks, Immigration

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Like the Birth Of Venus, the song [Yello "oh, Yeah"] denotes the birth of the bro. The song just reminds me of bros looking out over lowered Ray-Bans. It birthed a negative sexual revolution. I was going to a lot of bondage clubs at the time and they did play this song. The song I associate more is that horrible Enigma song with the Gregorian chant. There's something good buried in that song and I might not hate it as much if I hadn't been a sex worker.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Sex, Hate

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They were nearly all from Miramar. Because of reports of widespread labor abuses, several countries are now considering a ban on imports of Thai seafood.

  Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

  Country, Slave Labor, Abuse

  "Thailand Tuna Plant Workers Win 'Unprecedented' Settlement". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. March 5, 2016.

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• The reality is that if you - let's say you just pulled encryption. Let's ban it. Let's you and I ban it tomorrow. And so we sit in Congress and we say, thou shalt not have encryption. What happens then? Well, I would argue that the bad guys will use encryption from non-American companies, because they're pretty smart.

  Tim Cook

  Smart, Reality, Guy

  Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Lev Grossman, time.com. March 17, 2016.

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• I think if Russia is really an honest signatory to the chemical weapons ban, if Syria wants to be, ultimately someone has to be responsible for killing civilians. And that's the hard part out of this.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Russia, Want

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Corny, Intention

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• A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Demand, Assumption

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.197, Shambhala Publications

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• Assault weapons ban reintroduced.

  Barack Obama

  Assault Weapons, Weapons, Assault

  Second Presidential Debate, www.npr.org. October 16, 2012.

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• I like playing a bit of golf. But, if people went around beating people to
  death with golf clubs, I'd say, 'Ban golf. I'll take up tennis'

  Stephen Merchant

  Golf, People, Tennis

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• Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Home

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

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• Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Sex, Grandchildren, Years

  "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.

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• South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  South Carolina, Want, States

  "SC Republican Wants to Ban Money". littlegreenfootballs.com. February 18, 2010.

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• The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?

  Jonathan Granoff

  Demand, Weapons, Steps

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• Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sex, Kansas, Yesterday

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• Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

  Andy Rooney

  Baseball, Gun, Thinking

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• An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

  Nick Hornby

  Player, Rivals, Clubs

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• I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!

  Christa Miller

  Keys, Glasses, Two

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• I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.

  Rich Sommer

  People

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• No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.

  Doug Casey

  Kids, Light, Years

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, New York, Latin

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