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People should have a choice whether they want to engage in risky activities. JACOB SULLUM You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions, ... What you put in your mouth and ... JACOB SULLUM People may very well choose to trade off years of their life, or the possibility of disease or injur... JACOB SULLUM What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore ... JACOB SULLUM It's a question of what people want, JACOB SULLUM What you put in your mouth and how much exercise you get, that's pretty personal. It doesn't get muc... JACOB SULLUM You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions, JACOB SULLUM Like most drugs, their benefits outweigh the costs for most people. I'd rather be driving next to a ... JACOB SULLUM I like to think I'm a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to s... JACOB BATALON I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York. JACOB BATALON All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of noth... JACOB BATALON I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and ... JACOB BATALON I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time. JACOB BATALON I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' ro... JACOB BATALON I think the sidekick makes the number one look good. JACOB BATALON No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix o... JACOB BATALON There's nothing wrong with being yourself. JACOB BATALON When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to mo... JACOB ARTIST I was always singing to myself, but I never ever performed, and I never told anyone I liked to sing.... JACOB ARTIST You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that... JACOB ARTIST I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching a... JACOB ARTIST I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do o... JACOB ARTIST Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usua... JACOB ARTIST I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have... JACOB ARTIST I started dancing when I was five, and I trained intensively as a competitive dancer up until the en... JACOB ARTIST Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise. JACOB ARTIST I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professio... JACOB ARTIST Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes ... JACOB HACKER Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes... JACOB HACKER Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to wo... JACOB EPSTEIN As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of... JACOB EPSTEIN My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its ... JACOB EPSTEIN My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their id... JACOB EPSTEIN I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sci... JACOB EPSTEIN The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, wh... JACOB EPSTEIN I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me... JACOB EPSTEIN My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the wor... JACOB EPSTEIN There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ... JACOB EPSTEIN JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM JACOB DEGROM It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics beca... JACOB DALTON I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to m... JACOB DALTON I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves. JACOB DALTON I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basica... JACOB DALTON Everybody always asks me, 'How much can you bench?' I'm like, 'I don't know. I d... JACOB DALTON My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, ... JACOB DALTON My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler. JACOB DALTON JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He ... JACOB BATALON New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise. JACOB BATALON Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make... JACOB BATALON I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool h... JACOB BATALON I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way. JACOB BATALON I didn't really enjoy school in general. JACOB BATALON Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for ... JACOB BATALON Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of act... JACOB BATALON I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's re... JACOB BATALON The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and t... JACOB BATALON I just want the fans to be happy, and if they're happy, I'm happy. And yes, most definitely,... JACOB BATALON God has definitely been good to me. JACOB BATALON Music was sort of my thing at first. JACOB BATALON At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting. JACOB BATALON When I was young, we had these parties, and they'd make me sing in front of the family all the t... JACOB BATALON I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not... JACOB BATALON People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it's an ho... JACOB BATALON JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB RIIS JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB CHANOWSKI MAX JACOB JACOB RIIS JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BOEHME JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB GHITIS JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BOEHME JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BOEHME JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB BRONOWSKI Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun
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[Lat.... JACOB BOBART JACOB DEGROM JACOB ROTHSCHILD JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB RIIS JACOB WHITESIDES JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB RIIS JACOB RIIS JACOB RIIS It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably i... JACOB RUPPERT Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off. JACOB LATIMORE JACOB LEW Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as ... JACOB ZUMA People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wan... JACOB ZUMA JACOB BRONOWSKI I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the... JACOB EPSTEIN For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he ... JACOB RUPPERT JACOB BRONOWSKI In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build u... JACOB RUPPERT JACOB LEW JACOB LEW JACOB BRONOWSKI JACOB LEW JACOB LEW Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries. JACOB ZUMA JACOB RIIS There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience. JACOB BRAUDE Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil undernea... JACOB BRAUDE Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. JACOB BRAUDE He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. JACOB ATWOOD They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week. JACOB ATWOOD This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean... JACOB ATWOOD He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself. JACOB ATWOOD Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the f... JACOB ATKINSON Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical id... JACOB ATKINSON Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain JACOB ATKINSON Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything... JACOB ATKINSON Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I... JACOB ATKINSON He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ... JACOB ATKINSON Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart.... JACOB ATKINSON Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. JACOB ATKINSON Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they... JACOB ATKINSON It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets ... JACOB ATKINSON The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they ... JACOB ARABO Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer... JACOB ARABO I'm really not the bling king, ... I'm the No. 1 supplier and designer for bling kings. JACOB ARABO We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my min... JACOB ARABO It's been an intense process. It's been harrowing at times, but we've made it through and it's been ... JACOB ALLEN It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic stri... JACOB ALLEN Coach Mac (Tim MacDonald) told us last week that the defensive line should be the leading tacklers t... JACOB ALLEN It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the optio... JACOB ALLEN What we wanted to do is set a good tone for the season. 2-0 is exactly where we wanted to be. JACOB ALLEN You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them. JACOB LATIMORE JACOB LEW JACOB ROTHSCHILD Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underne... JACOB BRAUDE There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience. JACOB BRAUDE If a thing goes without saying -- let it. JACOB BRAUDE It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and bill... JACOB LATIMORE JACOB CHANOWSKI It's amazing how much manipulation is going on in parasites. JACOB KOELLA JACOB BRONOWSKI After a few rings, my brother, Duduzani, went to ascertain who was at the door. When he peered throu... JACOB ZUMA [Manamela said people had used the Scorpions to] settle scores ... Some people have been hell-bent o... 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To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
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A government is not legitimate merely because it exists. 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an e... 
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the ... 
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the Uni... 
We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibili... 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that million... 
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a gove... 
The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your... 
For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... 
We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because w... 
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that. 
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has t... 
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... 
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. 
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have ... 
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the... 
We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence. 
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require go... 
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy fl... 
That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have at... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... 
There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition... 
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fa... 
Eugenics is not just a tool of totalitarianism. Eugenics, as it was conceived, could not be anything... 
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if... 
You need to develop the ability to just be yourself and not be doing something, that's what the phon... 
When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every... 
When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch. 
I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In o... 
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking ple... 
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself. 
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. 
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred ... 
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; th... 
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. 
Some defeats are only installments to victory. 
When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w... 
Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. 
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandm... 
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. 
My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's ... 
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations. 
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending. 
Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority. 
It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; th... 