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"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
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"When many circumstances come together, one will get food to eat. When many circumstances come together, one gets to go hungry (one will not get food to eat). One goes hungry when many more circumstances come together. A greater number of circumstances are needed for an unfavorable situation, and less for favorable situation."
"It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
"Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days."
"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
"How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all."
"Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him."
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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."
"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
"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."
"Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes."
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system."
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
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