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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it…
— Anna Quindlen
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I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their…
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Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to…
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The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.
— Robert Nozick
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Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their…
— Unknown Author
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The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
— Robert Nozick
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I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.
— Rocco Buttiglione
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Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
— Fran Drescher
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What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.
— Shelley Berkley
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I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with…
— Molly Ivins
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and…
— Fran Lebowitz
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
— Gore Vidal
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