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«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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«I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
| Keywords:
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« I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes. »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
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«I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.»
«I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
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Nations,
Separation
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«I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.»
Author: Milton Friedman
(Economist)
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«It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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«It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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«Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in»
«Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
community, failings, favor, journalism, notwithstanding, uneducated
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