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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."

"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."

"It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville."

"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

"With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year."

"The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them."

"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."

"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."

"Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities."

"Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

"Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded."

"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."

"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."

"But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe."
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