Benjamin Tucker Quotes
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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We must not think, 'Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge.' The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.
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The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
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Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.
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People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.
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Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
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I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
