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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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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.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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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.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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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.
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Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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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.
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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.
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Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.
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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.
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Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
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You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
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In the Netherlands, we have had a difficult year and we are now getting out of this difficulty. So we have now growth prospects for 2014.
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I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.
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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.
