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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
— Epictetus
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to follow him…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up…
— Gautama Buddha
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