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• Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.

  Jon Stewart

  Daughter, Moving, Gay

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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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• 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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• Assault weapons ban reintroduced.

  Barack Obama

  Assault Weapons, Weapons, Assault

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.

  Elton John

  Gay, Artist, Men

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview With Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

  Jil Sander

  Leggings, Ifs

  "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 06, 2011.

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• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Gun, British Rule In India

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.681, GENERAL PRESS

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• You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Reading, Holocaust, Feminist

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• Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.

  Eric Schlosser

  Jobs, Children, Fighting

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Gun, Criminals, Libertarian

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• I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

  John Chafee

  Gun, Law, Clubs

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• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Voice, Alcohol, Sound

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.

  Diana DeGette

  Gun, Numbers, Magazines

  "Democratic rep ridiculed for fumbling facts on gun magazines". www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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• Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

  Michael Badnarik

  Gun, Thinking, Law

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• Twitter should ban my mother.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Mother, Should

  "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

  Sean Penn

  Eye, Gay, Thinking

  Sean Penn's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2009.

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• What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Police, Debtors

  "The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic". Book by Mark Levin, August 13, 2013.

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• In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Children, Dad, Hate

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• Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.

  Willie Nelson

  Book, Good Friend, Marijuana

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jan 14, 2012

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• I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from the world.

  Rory Edwards

  Book, Locks, World

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