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- Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and…
- One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by…
- The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is…
- Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in…
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the…
- It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the…
- The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
- To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United…
- There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is -…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to…
- Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of…
- Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
- The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
- Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked…
- Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values"…
- The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as…
- Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.…
- Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is…
- The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
- The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
- The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster