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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and…
— Margaret Atwood
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many…
— Alex Jones
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It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in…
— Abbe Pierre
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When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
— Helen Rowland
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I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.
— Shawn Johnson
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It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products…
— Murray Rothbard
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