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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"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."
Family
"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."
Government
"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
Rights
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
Survival
"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."
Liberty
"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does."
Government
"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."
Trust
"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."
Documentation
"Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America."
Life
"Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance."
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"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"
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"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."
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"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves."
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."
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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."
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"Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories."
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"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
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