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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."
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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."


"Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good."


"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket."


"But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe."


"Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated."


"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does."


"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."


"It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing."


"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"


"Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded."
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