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You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing,…
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property…
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I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the…
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Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of…
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The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.
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If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
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Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as…
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a…
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Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a…
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes…
— Jo Brand
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Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection…
— Dianne Feinstein
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe…
— Luis Marden
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Rock star, flier than an ostrich.
— Juelz Santana
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -…
— Garrett P. Serviss
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I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping,…
— John Chaney
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
— Pierre Salinger
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With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort…
— David Fricke
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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
— Thomas Malthus
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We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the…
— Margaret Heffernan
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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The…
— Ambrose Bierce
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