The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more … - Milton Friedman

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It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.

Milton Friedman

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

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The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.

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Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal.

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Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

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I know one thing: that you can do a lot of things but if you don't educate people into conscious anarchism it gets frittered away.

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Michael Chabon

I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people.

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Sigmund Freud

The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality.

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Billie Holiday

I never sing a song the same way twice.

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