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Richard Posner has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is…
• I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
• As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool…
• The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples…
• Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted…
• But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old…
• If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does…
• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its…
• Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
• MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -…
• I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous…
• It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.…

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