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We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

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Alan Ryan
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: May 9
Philosopher
London
England
Alan James Ryan
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It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.
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A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.
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Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.
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Justice is the most political or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.
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Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
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