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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough o

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. – Thomas Sowell

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell

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Freedom
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. – Thomas Sowell

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power
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. – Thomas Sowell

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Science
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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Politics

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. – Pat Riley

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Politics

Some of the FDAs own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDAs actions. – Joseph Crowley

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Politics

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. – Will Rogers

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Politics

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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. – Tony Campolo

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Government

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Mind

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you cant do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and thats not going to change. – Brett Favre

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Change