James Cook Quotes
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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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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
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Beware the person who is on a hot streak.
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The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
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The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
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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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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
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Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
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A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
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What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.
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Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.
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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
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We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.
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To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.
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It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
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I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
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Prayer is futility when compared to belief.
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Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
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That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.