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Less Quotes by Henry Hazlitt
- 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.…
- The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and…
- When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people…
- You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of…
- When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand…
- The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
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