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Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction. Joe Haldeman

I strongly believe that the Second Amendment creates an individual right to possess and use guns for purposes of both hunting and self-defense. Cass Sunstein

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression "collective rights” is a contradiction in terms. Ayn Rand

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own. Herman Kahn

The attitude that living things are placed here for our benefit still dominates our culture, even where its underpinnings have disappeared. We now need, for purposes of scientific understanding, to find a less human-centered view of the natural world. Richard Dawkins

Like resilience, self-organizazion is often sacrificed for purposes of short-term productivity and stability. Donella Meadows

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