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When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone…
— Murray Rothbard
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The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do…
— Walter E. Williams
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What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their…
— Walter E. Williams
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The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
— Seneca the Younger
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I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.
— Dian Fossey
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Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak…
— Bertolt Brecht
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It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."
— Harry Browne
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Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is…
— Oprah Winfrey
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How can one call that a defeat? There is no such thing.
— Walter Russell
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This means that we have here an entirely separate kind of chemistry for which the current tool we use is the electrometer, not the balance,…
— Marie Curie
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from…
— Anaxagoras
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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