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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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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why…
— Milton Friedman
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It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The…
— Eric Ries
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Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
— Paul Prudhomme
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We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
— Joyce Meyer
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is…
— Alexander Fleming
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What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when…
— Louis L'Amour
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What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you…
— Woody Allen
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The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take…
— Wilma Rudolph
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
— J D Salinger
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and…
— Douglas Coupland
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When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When…
— Orson Scott Card
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