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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
James Cook
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The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.
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The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
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Without memory there are no worries.
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We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.
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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.
James Cook
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A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
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The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.
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What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
James Cook
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Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.
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Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.
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Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
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Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
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To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
James Cook
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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
James Cook