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A very different meaning of equality has emerged in the United States in recent decades - equality of outcome. Everyone should have the same level of living or of income, should finish the race at the same time. Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty. The attempt to promote it has been a major source of bigger and bigger government, and of government-imposed restrictions on our liberty. — Milton Friedman

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. — Jane Austen

throat was so swollen and sore from screaming. The killer was still in the house. What if I actually saw him?" "Stop — Cathrina Constantine

Insofar as a purely transient construction of flesh and blood can remember (or foretell) what it is to be stone, Lucy understood the mountain's wish to listen at the window of a den of gamblers and be warmed by all that free-floating hope and desolation. — Helen Oyeyemi

You decide your own level of involvement. — Chuck Palahniuk

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same. — Deborah Tannen

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students. — Andy Stanley

The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence. — Julian Fantino

When you break free of your reef and drift with the current, you see that nothing has stayed still except you - everything is different. — Shane Jiraiya Cummings

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again. — Zhang Xiaogang

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population - — Jonathan Safran Foer

I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing. — Flannery O'Connor

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers. — David Hallberg

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. — Jack Kerouac