Lysander Spooner Quotes
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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When you're used to looking through a stills lens and you have to capture an emotional moment, and that picture is not moving and yet it has to have impact, I think that's the first influence on my style.
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I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.
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I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
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Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
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Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number.
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I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion. It's not one you look for. You don't want this kind of compassion; it just happens.
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It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
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Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
