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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#economy #europe #industries #job #long

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! ↗

— Maurice Ravel

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I constantly looked for motherly protection. ↗

— Michael Reagan

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I started to build barriers between myself and others to protect myself. ↗

— Michael Reagan

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I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#guns #house #i #me #pencils

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can. ↗

— Tara Reid

#awesome #cure #find #friends #hiv