Lysander Spooner Quotes
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
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It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.
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About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.
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The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.
