"Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts."

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Source : Yaron Brook, Don Watkins (2012). “Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government”, p.161, Macmillan

Yaron Brook

#Rights Quotes #Together Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.”
“Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.”
“writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.”
“Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.”
“There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.”
“In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.”
“It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.”

Source : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.”

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