"Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?"

Source : "Health Care Mythology" by Cliff Asness, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 22, 2009.

Cliff Asness

#Believe Quotes #Taken Quotes #Boys Quotes

“The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there. And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.”
“I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.”
“Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.”

Source : Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925
“To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.”
“I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.”

Source : "Robert Sarvis: Libertarian Candidate for Governor of Virginia with Double-Digit Poll Numbers". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. October 2, 2013.
“In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.”
“Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.”
“I love the sound of a brand-new bottle of coke when you pry the lid off and it starts to fizz. Whenever I hear that sound, I think of roses, and of sitting together with someone you care about and of Romeo and Juliet waking up somewhere and saying to each other, weren't we jerks? And then having all that be over. That's what I think of when I hear the sound of a brand-new bottle of Coke being opened”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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