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It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope… — John Stuart Mill
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even… — Robert Nozick
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely… — Thomas Sowell
Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the U.S. economy rather… — T. Boone Pickens
Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is… — Sally Field
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.… — Austin Bradford Hill
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an idea most pagans… — Elaine Pagels
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. — Dwight L. Moody
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can… — Ban Ki-moon
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more forms… — Sheila Fitzpatrick
Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness. That is why… — Irene Khan
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability… — Jim Rohn
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence... Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out… — Peter Lilley
For a theory to be scientific it must be capable of being refuted by the evidence. Given that we have had three decades of rising… — Peter Lilley
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep… — Dean Rusk
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them. — Bill McKibben
The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal… — Anton Chekhov
Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes — Martin Luther

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