"Lest those islands still seem to you too……" — Jared Diamond

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• Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
• Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat

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