Tom Stamper

Tom’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (578)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1117)
biography‎ (285)
crime-fiction‎ (149)
film‎ (132)
fiction‎ (119)
politics‎ (119)
sports‎ (87)

baseball‎ (86)
series-fiction‎ (84)
strategic-thinking‎ (81)
classics‎ (69)
culture‎ (61)
american-history‎ (54)
criticism‎ (39)
history‎ (34)
business‎ (28)

humor‎ (28)
poker‎ (21)
television‎ (21)
economics‎ (20)
crime‎ (18)
music‎ (18)
theater‎ (17)
world-fiction‎ (15)
japan‎ (11)

sabermetrics‎ (10)
science‎ (10)
western-fiction‎ (8)
food‎ (7)
instruction‎ (7)
law‎ (6)
stopped-reading‎ (6)
travel‎ (3)
favorites‎ (1)

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Tom’s Quotes

“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: 1936, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrasing-wollstonecraft, self-improvement, wisdom

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“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
― Ronald Reagan

100 likes

“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.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

666 likes

“It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

tags: foundations, labor, liberalism, property

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