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"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."

"Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum."

"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."

"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."

"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."

"The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum."

"Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights."
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"Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on."


"What we do not confront, we inhabit.What we do not reject, we accept.What we do not fight, we become."


"Dr. Peter Boghossian's A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life.(Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian's book, 'A Manual for Creating Atheists')"


"It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others."


“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter-argument they have is ‘being offended.’”


"If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing."


"Record what you can, pursue your passions, connect with the world, fight the good fight, defy evil, shine incandescently as best you can. And it doesn't matter what field it's in but, it does matter that we leave something that accumulates over time."
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