James Cook Quotes
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Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
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Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.
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When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
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Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
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Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
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Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.
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It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
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Faith must be worked at.
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With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.
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What is written is more influential than what is said.
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Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
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Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
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Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.
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Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
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Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.
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The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
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The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
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The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.
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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
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What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
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A salesman sees a commission.
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.