Paul Craig Roberts Quotes
The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.
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Could we even pretend the law still existed? Or was it something you made up now, as the occasion required?
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The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
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The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.
