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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. – Milton Friedman

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. – Milton Friedman

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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody. – Stephen King

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Hearing voices no one else can hear isnt a good sign, even in the wizarding world. – J. K. Rowling

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Too much of a good thing can be taxing. – Mae West

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