Walter Block Quotes
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I love action movies.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
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The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.
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'You need not fear where you are going when you know Jesus is going with you.'
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'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Only an easy scramble remained and we were there, on the hitherto untrodden summit of Nelion.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
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Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity.
