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by Thomas Pynchon

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Book cover for Human Action: Scholar's Edition (LvMI)

Human Action: Scholar's Edition (LvMI) by Ludwig von Mises

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If social conditions did not fulfill the wishes of the reformers, if their Utopias proved unrealizable, the fault was seen in the moral failure of man. Social problems were considered ethical problems. What was needed in order to construct ...more

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

by Jonathan Haidt

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John’s Quotes

“Anticapitalism can maintain itself in existence only by sponging on capitalism.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism

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“Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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