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"The oldest theory of contract is I think negative."
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"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences."

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."

"Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?"

"Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution."

"I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking."

"There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative."

"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."
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"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."

"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."

"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."

"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."

"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not."

"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."

"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
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