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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Although cohabitating same-sex couples are prohibited from jointly adopting children under Utah law as a result of the same-sex marriage ban, the… — Carlos F. Lucero Copy Share Image
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Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than… — George Will Copy Share Image
The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to… — Charles Sheeler Copy Share Image
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes… — A. R. Gurney Copy Share Image
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So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that… — Robert Svoboda Copy Share Image
In my opinion, those politicians are making decisions based on calculations related to polling numbers and strategic political agendas. But if they… — Yasmine Elmasri Copy Share Image
The way I see it is that I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict.… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
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Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“The individual will not be crushed by Big Brother; it will disintegrate from within. Today corporations and governments pay homage to my… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
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In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist.… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
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The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who… — Bob Benson Copy Share Image
When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China,… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image