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If we wish to preserve a free society it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

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Friedrich August von Hayek
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Category: Society

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
  • 2. I think I'm a bit less inhibited and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
  • 3. It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
  • 2. Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.
  • 3. I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm not angry I'm not an angry person but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am and sometimes it works quite well.
  • 2. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.
  • 3. I love each and every one of you but like my own family you thrill you frustrate you anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 2. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 3. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
  • 2. A house is a machine for living in.
  • 3. Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
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