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“Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.”

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No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

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The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

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While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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