Frederic Bastiat Quotes
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Quotes to Explore
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
