Tom G. Palmer Quotes
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.
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I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
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The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.
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Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
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The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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The dead don't bother with particulars.
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If people are being downtrodden and mistreated, it's our obligation, it's our responsibility to speak out, not just for ourselves but for others.
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Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.
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I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
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If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
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Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
