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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 - the technique…
— Milton Friedman
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do…
— Walter E. Williams
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Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and…
— Pat Buchanan
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So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the…
— Charles Dickens
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If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is…
— Thomas Sowell
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'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
— Wilma Rudolph
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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed…
— Owen Feltham
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
— Bertolt Brecht
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When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony and work toward a definite objective or purpose, they place themselves in a position,…
— Napoleon Hill
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Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both…
— Stephen Covey
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Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never…
— T. Harv Eker
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The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical…
— David Lack
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We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of…
— Karl Marx
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It is an endless…
— Charles Lapworth
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
— John Playfair
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
— Mark Twain
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By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
— Thomas Hobbes
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It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied…
— Louis Agassiz
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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the…
— Immanuel Kant
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