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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along."
"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice."
"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."
"Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves."
"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."
"What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights."
"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."
"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."
"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
"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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