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If younger people see older people who havent planned ahead and ha

If younger people see older people who havent planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government. – Harry Browne

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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. – Harry Browne

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Im old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war. – Harry Browne

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When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer. – Harry Browne

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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns

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The best prophet of the future is the past. – George Byron

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You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"

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To live only for some future goal is shallow. Its the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. – Robert M. Pirsig

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