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To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire… — Ludwig von Mises
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable… — Ayn Rand
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of… — John Maynard Keynes
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors… — Ayn Rand
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth. — Anthony de Mello
Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth.… — Anthony de Mello
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to… — Vernon Howard
You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take. — Byron Katie
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a… — Daniel Goleman
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as… — Francis Crick
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence.… — Louis Agassiz
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief… — John Dewey
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he… — Robin G. Collingwood
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building… — Karl Popper
Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that… — Bertrand Russell
When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be reduced to arithmetical… — Charles Lyell

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