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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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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
— John James Audubon
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
— Unknown Author
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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
— John Milton
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the…
— Laozi
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Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives…
— William Hazlitt
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the…
— Samuel Johnson
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All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of…
— Rajneesh
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty…
— Anais Nin
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them…
— Joan Baez
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It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see…
— Geri Halliwell
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