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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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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…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for… — Harry Browne
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. — William Ruckelshaus
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free… — Frank J. Prial
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.… — Barry Commoner
It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch. — Stephen Hawking
The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch. — Alan Guth
You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch.… — Margaret Atwood
Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level. — Joan D. Vinge
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party. — Kool Moe Dee
We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch. — Grace Napolitano
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch. — B B King
It is important to recognize that behind the razzmatazz of consumerism, we all remain dependent on basic natural resources - land, air,… — Klaus Topfer

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