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Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case.…

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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…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
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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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always… — Milton Friedman
For economist the real world is often a special case. — Edgar Fiedler
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth
I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — Gillian Flynn
The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value.… — Sir John Richard Hicks
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special… — Stephen LaBerge
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and… — David Puttnam
Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. — R. Buckminster Fuller
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice… — Sue Monk Kidd

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