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• No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such violence; that is, only defensively against the aggressive violence of another. In short, no violence may be employed against a non-aggressor. Here is the fundamental rule from which can be deduced the entire corpus of libertarian theory.

  Murray Rothbard

  Men, Libertarian, Violence

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• Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mind, Body, Madness

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.209

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• Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.

  Carlos Wilcox

  Satan, Wells, Opening

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• Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them... This famine may fairly be called political because it was not the result of any overwhelming natural catastrophe or such complete exhaustions of the country's resources in foreign and civil wars.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Country, War, Mean

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Opposites, Laughing

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• I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

  Rick Mercer

  Night, Bed, Tomorrow

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

  Susan Griffin

  Roles, Modern Woman, Virtue

  Susan Griffin (2002). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, p.17, Broadway Books

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• A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.

  William Feather

  Money, Community, Used

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• Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Reading, Soul, Enemy

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• The young bloods of the South: sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard-players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never will... They are splendid riders, first-rate shots and utterly reckless. These men must all be killed or employed by us before we can hope for peace.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Son, Player

  "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman".

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• I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Two, Growth, Mind

  Augustus De Morgan (1860). “Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic”, p.72

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• The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 1, 1994.

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• If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Independent, Self

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• Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Lying, Science, Average

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  History, Movement, Firsts

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

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• It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Everyday, Energy

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• Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Home, Army

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

  Nelson Mandela

  School, Years, Community

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• Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Law, People

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• Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

  Jim Blasingame

  Curiosity, Intuition, Educated

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• I am content and happy with my situation and like the flexibility that comes with being self-employed. And it's nice to know that I can contribute something to society

  Rhonda Byrne

  Nice, Self, Situation

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• Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

  Richard Barnet

  Law, Weakness, Sides

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• Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Order, Atmosphere

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “Works”, p.441

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• Any method which appears to offer advantages to a nation at war will be vigorously employed by that nation. There is but one logical course to pursue, namely, to study the possibilities of such warfare from every angle.

  George W. Merck

  War, Study, Logical

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