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The main actors on the world stage are the size of continents, be they nation states or voluntary groupings of nation states such as the E.U. Nostalgia can help us ignore these harsh realities for a while, but it will not make them go away.
Frans Timmermans
World
Will
Go Away
Nation
Stage
States
Harsh
Main
Voluntary
Make
Continents
Go
Size
Nostalgia
While
Realities
Them
Us
Ignore
Help
Actor
Away
World Stage
The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.
Harry Browne
Religion
Relationships
Way
Something
No-One
He
Voluntary
Participate
Forced
Commerce
American
Personal
Want
Personal Relationships
American Way
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
Henry Hazlitt
Sector
Fact
Voluntary
Economy
Private
Private Sector
In Fact
Public
Public Sector
Coercive
As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Wise
Stream
Rule
Steady
General
General Rule
Voluntary
Governments
Taxation
Avoid
Income
Need
Sometimes 'sin' taxes are useful not because of their perceived health benefits but because they are effectively a form of voluntary taxation which tends to arouse less irritation than other taxes.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Health
Benefits
Sometimes
Other
Perceived
Tends
Voluntary
Sin
Health Benefits
Because
Arouse
Effectively
Than
Form
Irritation
Which
Taxation
Taxes
Useful
Less
I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines.
Jan Brewer
Education
Me
You
State
Local
More
Clear
Voluntary
Perfectly
Perfectly Clear
Know
Involved
Math
Lines
Than
Any
Common
Want
Decisions
Them
Across
Standards
English
Comparable
Washington
Set
Core
This Bitcoin currency is a voluntary decentralized currency, anonymous. It can't be shut down by anyone; there are no central servers.
Jeff Berwick
Bitcoin
Down
Voluntary
Anonymous
Currency
Decentralized
Anyone
Central
Shut
By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
Jeff Berwick
Government
Nature
Voluntary
Well
Governments
Theft
Taxes
Actions
Coercive
Violent
I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
Jo Cox
Poverty
Aid
Sector
Ten
Ten Years
Had
Voluntary
Years
Decade
Child
Oxfam
Children
Then
Worked
Worker
Save
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.
John M. McHugh
People
Military
Increasingly
Voluntary
Between
Since
America
Personal
Fewer
Far
Less
Connection
Serve
No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
John Stossel
You
Win
Think
Unless
Only
Both
Voluntary
Transaction
Happens
The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
Joseph Rotblat
Time
Guidelines
Oath
Voluntary
Come
Perhaps
Scientist
Conduct
Form
Formulate
Ethical
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
Work
Character
Mind
Build
Own
Military
Think
Other
Marketing
Out
Kind
Licensed
Detective
Guy
My Own
Develop
He
Step
Voluntary
Takes
Like
Within
Method
Up
Going
Whether
Work Out
Next
Acting
Planning
Ground
Copyright
The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
Katherine Dunn
Women
Men
Aggressive
Society
Evidence
More
Potent
Voluntary
How
Females
Question
Just
Large
Growing
Eager
Violence
Not enough children being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella because their parents, for whatever reason, have decided that it is voluntary.
Kelly Evans
Parents
Whatever
Enough
Voluntary
Because
Being
Children
Decided
Against
Measles
Reason
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Lincoln Steffens
Moral
Morality
Only
Voluntary
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Character
Rights
Protection
Fire
Mutual
Similar
Voluntarily
Voluntary
Parties
Insurance
Shipwreck
Precisely
Legitimate
Against
Company
Agreed
Association
Remember: the ratings system is a voluntary infringement of First Amendment rights, an uneasy bargain between the needs of parents, the needs of artists, and the needs of large media corporations to make profits. Any time we chip away at the First Amendment, we should at least do it with some reverence.
Marshall Herskovitz
Time
Needs
Rights
Remember
Parents
First
Corporations
System
Some
Ratings
Voluntary
Between
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Make
Least
Reverence
Uneasy
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Any
Artists
Chip
Should
Bargain
Large
Media
Away
Profits
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
Martin McGuinness
Inevitable
More
Voluntary
Fein
Likely
Sinn
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Than
Which
View
Coalition
Certainly
Include
United
While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet.
Murray Rothbard
Other
Others
State
Bayonet
Threat
Compulsion
Voluntary
Individuals
Goods
Institutions
Obtain
Revenue
Sale
While
Production
Use
Peaceful
Income
Services
Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.
Nicholas Winton
Work
People
Old
Young
John
Cross
Mentally
Voluntary
Red
Since
Involved
Been
Handicapped
Ambulance
Quite
Homes
Ever
With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.
Nick Harkaway
You
People
World
Free
Free Speech
Understanding
Eye
Must
Voluntary
True
Come
Reach
Blink
Legislate
Where
Whisper
Use
Million
Million People
Speech
With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.
Nick Rahall
Today
Day
Prayer
Mind
Nation
National
Our
Would
Restore
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Proposed
Voluntary
House
Schools
House Of Representatives
Celebration
Amendment
Representatives
Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.
Paul Hawken
Business
Responsibility
Members
Network
Costs
Voluntary
Venture
Doing
Social
Required
Who
Businesses
Social Responsibility
Therefore
Basis
Raising
Competitors
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?
Robert Dale Owen
Future
History
Fruit
People
World
Old
Bitterness
Past
Our
Our People
Parallel
Borne
Bear
Remain
Part
Voluntary
Still
Sprout
The History Of
After
In The Past
Which
Root
Ground
Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.
Robert Toombs
War
Tyler
Voluntary
New
California
New Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Acquired
Successful
Compact
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