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A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking…

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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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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. — Jorge Luis Borges
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. — Emile M. Cioran
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything. — Martin Luther
Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not… — Janet Morris
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking — Samuel Johnson
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking.… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all… — Francis Collins
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton
We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach. The answer is simple: if you want… — Margo Jones
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By

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