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“Under a system in which no single question is submitted to the electorate for direct decision, an ardent minority for or against a particular measure may often count for more than an apathetic majority.”
― Patrick Devlin, The Enforcement of Morals

tags: democracy, law, legislation, lobbying, lobbyists

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“Intentions do not insulate us from the consequences of our actions.”
― Jon D Harrison

tags: accountability, action, business, consequences, intentions, motivational

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“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frederic Bastiat

tags: bastiat, france, government, history, liberal, libertarian, philosophy

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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.”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law

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“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: happiness, money

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