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• ...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Fbi Agents, Rights

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• Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Hatred

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

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• No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

  Jack H. Adamson

  Teacher, Teaching, Acceptance

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• The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Army, Ncos, Missions

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• Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

  Henry Mitchell

  Garden, Doe

  Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Wish, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people.

  St. George Tucker

  Gun, Rights, People

  William Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1996). “Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte”, p.315, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Race, Done

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• A lot of adults don't think it's their place to interfere with kids. I interfere all the time.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Kids, Thinking, Adults

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• As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

  John Paul Stevens

  Government, Expression, Ideas

  "Excerpts From Ruling on Internet: 'Statute Abridges the Freedom of Speech'". www.nytimes.com. June 27, 1997.

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• I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

  Margery Allingham

  Nature, Blessed, People

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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• Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Class, People

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Simple, Judging

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

  Kimberly Frost

  Hair, Color, Brain

  Kimberly Frost (2009). “Would-Be Witch”, p.97, Penguin

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• The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Presidential, Prosperity

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Religious, Party, Believe

  Rutherford B. Hayes' Speech in Marion, Ohio, July 31, 1875.

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• It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with.

  Isaac Asimov

  Running, Horse, Fall

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• The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

  Plato

  Jobs, Men, Discipline

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• ...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have often heard and often said that justice consists of minding your own business and not interfering with other people.

  Plato

  Jobs, Men, People

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• It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

  Carl Jung

  Feet, Lazy, Individuality

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Law, Survival

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• When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Artist, Way

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• I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

  Richard Avedon

  Hate, Eye, Wish

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• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Ideas, Parent

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1992.

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