Penn Jillette Quotes
I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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My mother was always supportive.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
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September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn’t looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.
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There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'
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I have no evidence that libertarianism leads to a better life. I just think it is morally right.
