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If you get married, you lose all your benefits. That's insane! We should give people bonuses for getting married, and sending signals and talking about it to the society.

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Sam Brownback
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 12
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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
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[Felix Frankfurter] said courts are not representative bodies. They're not designed to be a good reflex of a democratic society. Their judgment is best informed and, therefore, most dependable within narrow limits.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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