Tom G. Palmer Quotes
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
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Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.
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It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.
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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
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From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?