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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves."
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
"To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question."
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."
"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."
"It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side."
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"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."
"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
"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 precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."
"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."
"Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated."
"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."
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