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“It is true that under the wages system the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure. That man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct.”
― Human Action: Scholar's Edition
― Human Action: Scholar's Edition
“It's not that the customer is always right, it's that the customer is paying to be wrong.”
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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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“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
“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
Pulp Fiction
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Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club
— 440 members
— last activity 15 hours, 17 min ago
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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