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Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.
Author: Elf Sternberg
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Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
Author: William Of Conches
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong...
Author: E.o. Wilson
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Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
Author: George Gordon Byron
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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Author: Joshua J. Marine
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Author: Theodore Rubin
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Author: Art Buchwald
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It is not a fragrant world.
Author: Raymond Chandler
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
Author: Greg Egan
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The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.
Author: John Fischer
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Author: Milton Friedman
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Author: Alan Gregg
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Author: Charles Kuralt
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Author: Peter Medawar
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
Author: Swami Nirmalananda
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Author: Bill Vaughan
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Author: Daniel Webster
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The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture.
Author: George Grosz
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No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
Author: Henry P. Fairchild
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Author: Friedrich Von Schiller
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Author: Friedrich Von Schiller
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The sort of dependence that results from exchange, i.e., from commercial transactions, is a reciprocal dependence. We cannot be dependent upon a foreigner without his being dependent on us. Now, this is what constitutes the very essence of society. To sever natural interrelations is not to make oneself independent, but to isolate oneself completely.
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Author: Frederic Bastiat
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Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
Author: Robert Burns
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
Author: Paul Ehrlich
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Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Author: De Montesquieu
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.
Author: Cecil F. Alexander
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It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.
Author: William Ralph Inge
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Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.
Author: George William Curtis
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