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- Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for…
- People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
- To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United…
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
- All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
- Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new…
- Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.…
- The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.…
- People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures…
- People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and…
- When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way…
- When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That…
- If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,†“gay rights,†etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the…
- All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman