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“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
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“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
― The Law
― The Law
“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
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“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― The Law
― The Law
Carl’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,374 books
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105 friends
34 books
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253 friends
6 books
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128 friends
170 books
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77 friends
69 books
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12 friends
0 books
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17 friends
0 books
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19 friends
1 book
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31 friends
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Biography, Classics, Ebooks, Fantasy, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Science, and Science fiction
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