Amity Shlaes Quotes
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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Value is what you get.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.
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Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
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I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorite called 'Silver Snaffles' that my mother gave away.
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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.
