Lysander Spooner Quotes

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

Lysander Spooner

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• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
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• It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

  

  Karine Vanasse
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• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

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• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
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• I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
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• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
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• The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

  

  Larry David
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• What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

  

  Ed Weeks
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• Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The thing is that the people of Pakistan have supported me. They don't think of me as Western. I am a daughter of Pakistan and I am proud that I am a Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

  

  Ogden Nash

• Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• He was only six, but he already knew that he hated it when he had to do what other people wanted, even when he knew that they were wrong. He didn’t want to be a soldier. He didn’t want to kill. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t want to obey stupid people.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

  

  Eliza Coupe
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• I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

  

  Katherine Heigl

• Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

  

  Ezra Miller
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• I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, 'Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.'

  

  Warren Farrell
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• I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.

  

  Bernard-Henri Levy
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• But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

  

  Lysander Spooner