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"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."
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"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."

"And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?"

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"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."
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