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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…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
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Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do…
— Julie Taymor
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I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be…
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It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was…
— James Marsters
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I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge…
— Joan Cusack
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Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance…
— Joe Klein
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of…
— Douglass North
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I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the…
— Diego Rivera
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I think people tend to be very myopic and they dont understand how their actions impact others.
— Jen Lancaster
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A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot…
— Daniel H. Pink
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