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«The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.»
Author: Robert Nozick
| About:
Government
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«The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Self-love
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«Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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«If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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«No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
impieties, impiety, prohibiting, suppressing
«Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the b»
«Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...»
«Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.»
Author: Seneca
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«Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
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