James Cook Quotes
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When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
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Without memory there are no worries.
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Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
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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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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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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.
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From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
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Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
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If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'
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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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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 power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
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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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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.