

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
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“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
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