James Cook Quotes
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Getting is more fun than having.
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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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We can never right the wrongs of the past.
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Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
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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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Faith must be worked at.
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Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
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It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
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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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What is written is more influential than what is said.
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With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.
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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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Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.
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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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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
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Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
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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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The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.
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Taxes are a penalty on progress.
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Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.