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If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must…
— Umberto Eco
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If it be objected that God must give every man an opportunity to be saved, we reply that the outward call does give every man…
— Loraine Boettner
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As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine.…
— Stephen Hawking
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If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you…
— Stephen Hawking
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Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous…
— Pascal Bruckner
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
— Edward Abbey
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There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take…
— Margaret Sanger
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You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a…
— Vaclav Havel
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It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,…
— Saul Bellow
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If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good…
— Luis Bunuel
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My mother always told me,â€hide your face- people are looking at youâ€. I would reply,â€It does not matter; I am also looking at them.
— Malala Yousafzai
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In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which…
— E. Stanley Jones
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For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.
— Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
— Saint Augustine
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If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything?…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open…
— Paul Tournier
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much…
— Gloria Steinem
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