Lysander Spooner Quotes

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

Lysander Spooner

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• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Man
  • Daughter

• People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Intellectual

• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • History
  • Economic
  • Through

• The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Problems
  • Habit

• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Time
  • World
  • School

• I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Girl
  • Understand
  • Camera

• I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Point
  • Horrible

• My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Year

• I made two rings for myself, and when I was in Los Angeles, I walked into a store called Maxfields, and they essentially bought them off my hands.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Myself
  • Hands
  • Los Angeles

• For all we knowOf what the blessed do aboveIs, that they sing, and that they love.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Blessed

• Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Single

• But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

  

  Maurice Jarre

• I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Growing

• What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

  

  Allan Houston

• I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Children
  • American

• When it comes to work, I'm not competitive at all. Having Cara as my baby, I had to learn quite quickly that I couldn't be competitive because I had a sister who meant more to me. And I knew she was going to be brilliant, so I had to become very aware of not comparing.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Work
  • She
  • Baby

• I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Bored

• I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Singing

• You are not just about death and disease.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Death

• I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Country
  • Family
  • History

• It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  

  Keith Boykin
  • Responsibility
  • Helping
  • Growing Up

• A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.

  

  Lysander Spooner