James Cook Quotes
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
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The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.
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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
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Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
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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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Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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Without memory there are no worries.
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
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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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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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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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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
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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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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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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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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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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.
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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.
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The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.