"People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others."

-- Anthony de Jasay

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“Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional”
“I love interpreting other people's music.”
“When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.”

Source : Robert Kagan (2007). “Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order”, p.4, Vintage
“I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.”
“Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.”
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
“Isnâ€™t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do â€œpracticeâ€?”

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