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“People as a whole do not like change or they would change themselves. What they want is for you to change, so they can be rewarded for it.”
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“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
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“If success were easy, everybody would do it. Because it’s not, you have the opportunity to distinguish yourself by solving problems. The more problems you solve, the more success you’ll have in life.
Then, once you’re successful, you won’t have any more problems, right? Wrong. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have a better class of problems.”
― 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
Then, once you’re successful, you won’t have any more problems, right? Wrong. But if you’re lucky, you’ll have a better class of problems.”
― 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
“There is no room at all for independent enterprise under any variety of State Socialism. Prices are to be regulated authoritatively; authority is to fix what is to be produced, and how, and in what quantities. There is to be no speculation, no 'excessive' profit, no loss. There is to be no innovation unless it be decreed by authority. The official is to direct and supervise everything.”
― The Theory of Money and Credit
― The Theory of Money and Credit
“It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.”
― Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
― Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
Pulp Fiction
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Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club
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This reading group is for lovers of classic Hollywood. We discuss the films, crews, actors, designers, and books that cover the Golden Age of Tinsel ...more
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