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Joseph Sobran
“When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed it and asks to be paid, withhold $5 and explain that this is income tax. Give $1 to his younger brother, and tell him that this is "fair". Also, explain that you need the other $4 yourself to cover the administrative costs of dividing the money. When he cries, tell him he is being "selfish" and "greedy". Later in life he will thank you.”
Joseph Sobran

Steve Goodier
“Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.”
Steve Goodier

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“To understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with “killer apps,” these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of “heuristics,” these often unwritten rules of thumb that are so determining of survival. In other words, you will be forced to give weight to things that have been around, things that have survived.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Joseph Sobran
“The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we,” like football fans talking about the home team.”
Joseph Sobran

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