Lysander Spooner Quotes
Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I don't feel closeted.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not.
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Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.
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New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
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Our Constitution does not profess to have been established simply by the majority, but by 'the people' - the minority as much as the majority.
