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11895"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when sTimF-9/27/2009
11894"Innocence is no defense against bureaucracy." - Rose Friedman, TwoTimF-9/27/2009
11893Right. Take Beanie Babies for example. It wasn't all that long ago that ManyMoose-9/27/2009
11892"Prices are perhaps the most misunderstood thing in economics. Whenever priTimF39/27/2009
11891"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." TimF29/25/2009
11890ARthur C. Clarke is right -- the dinosaurs lived a very long time, much longer tManyMoose39/25/2009
11889"If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs - thoTimF-9/25/2009
11888"All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very iTimF-9/21/2009
11887"But why is slavery so wrong, so horrible? It is, simply put, because it obTimF29/21/2009
11886History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. -Mark TwainStan-9/20/2009
11885"Media coverage brings similar problems of oversimplification. The tendencyTimF-9/18/2009
11884"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, baTimF29/18/2009
11883Sept 12 was the birthday of American satirist H.L. Mencken, born in Baltimore, Mdiana g19/13/2009
11882"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in sarno69/8/2009
11881"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruTimF39/5/2009
11880“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and TimF79/3/2009
11879Fervor is a defense against doubt.JBTFD-9/1/2009
11878You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of Peter Dierks58/28/2009
11877“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel oTimF88/25/2009
11876“I don’t believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual riTimF68/25/2009
11875The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color peoTimF48/25/2009
11874"The value of an article does not depend on its objective nature but on theTimF-8/18/2009
11873"The only universal medicine (Marxists) have for social evils—State ownershTimF38/14/2009
11872"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosPeter Dierks28/10/2009
11871Message 22317290Peter Dierks38/10/2009
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