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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
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"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
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"Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention."
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"I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate."
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"To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble."
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"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)."
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"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers."
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"I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel."
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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
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"I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself."
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"Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies."
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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
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"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
Government
"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."
Friendship
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."
Power
"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy."
Government
"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."
Government
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
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"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"
Self
"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"
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