Tom G. Palmer Quotes
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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do Not create anything, it will bemisinterpreted. it will not change.it will follow you the rest of your life.
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If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me.
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...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
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I used practically all the money I had available.
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I was in solitary confinement for three months," he explained. "There weren't any other inmates. I was basically just locked in a cage. I didn't have anybody to look at or talk to — it was just one jail cell after another.
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In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
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At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.
