Tom G. Palmer Quotes

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Tom G. Palmer

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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  • Work
  • Pretty

• Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
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• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
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• I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Think
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• A book is either autobiography or a novel.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Book
  • Autobiography
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• I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe

• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • World
  • Failure

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• Wit is cultured insolence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wit
  • Insolence
  • Cultured

• For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
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• I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Home

• Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Sexy

• The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Future

• I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Black Man
  • White Man
  • God`s side

• That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • War
  • Night
  • Past

• Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ‘the law of the market’… In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • People
  • Reason
  • Economic

• There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • World
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  • Book

• But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Reason
  • Choices
  • Normal