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• When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how…
• Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
• There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
• Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
• Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and…
• One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,…
• If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
• Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
• Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt…
• Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our…
• Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
• Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced…

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