Cass Sunstein (Cass Robert Sunstein) Quotes
Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.
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'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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For me, great jazz records really feel like everyone in the room is playing together in a zone - and all the musicians are completely in sync with each other.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.
