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"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
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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."
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"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."
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"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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"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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Personal Development

"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."
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Personal Development

"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
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Personal Development

"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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Personal Development

"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
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Personal Development

"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
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"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
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"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
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"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
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