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This is not a review, but a comment on the very first chapter: "The Architect." It appears that this chapter is inspired by the real story of a building, now known as the "Looshaus," built in 1911 by Adolf Loos on the Michaelerplatz in Vienna. The bu
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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
― No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
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“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
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