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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 18:15:02 GMT -8
“You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”
G.K. Chesterton
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:20:03 GMT -8
“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping toward destruction. Therefore, everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.”
― Ludwig von Mises
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:20:33 GMT -8
“Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.” ― Ludwig von Mises
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:22:37 GMT -8
“All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out” ― Ludwig von Mises
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:24:27 GMT -8
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.” ― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:25:39 GMT -8
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.” ― Ludwig von Mises
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:28:04 GMT -8
“A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!” ― Ludwig von Mises
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 8:38:56 GMT -8
“No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.” ― Ludwig von Mises
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 29, 2017 9:25:21 GMT -8
“have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 5, 2017 9:48:28 GMT -8
'An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.
'The Somebody Else's Problem field... relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else’s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.'--Douglas Adams
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Post by acptulsa on Oct 10, 2017 16:36:01 GMT -8
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 16, 2017 5:20:53 GMT -8
Oscar Wilde's Birthday
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ― Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
― Oscar Wilde
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 16, 2017 5:24:50 GMT -8
“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could” ― Oscar Wilde
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” ― Oscar Wilde
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 16, 2017 5:26:42 GMT -8
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” ― Oscar Wilde
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Post by willie with tan lines on Oct 16, 2017 7:04:35 GMT -8
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous... It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
- Oscar Wilde
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