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(ur intellectual property r mine)

"We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation-- MISES

Now you depart in innocence, a sufferer and not a doer of evil; a victim, not of the laws, but of men. But if you go forth, returning evil for evil, and injury for injury, breaking the covenants and agreements which you have made with us, and wronging those whom you ought least to wrong, that is to say, yourself, your friends, your country, and us, we shall be angry with you while you live, and our brethren, the laws in the world below, will receive you as an enemy; for they will know that you have done your best to destroy us. – Socrates

At bottom, liberalism treats the body while corrupting the soul. At its best, liberalism inspires a dedication to the liberty and rights of mankind that brings citizens to rise above themselves in the spirit of patriotism and philanthropy. –Nathanial Niles.

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness. – Bastiat

All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously. Mises

“We do not know what God is. God himself doesn’t know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.” -Emerson

“Nerds who get wedgies all day at school don’t dream of equality – they dream of being the one doing the beating and humiliating” -David Wong

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This struck a chord with me, something I think that a lot of libertarians fighting the good fight should consider something in a while:

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think. – Chinese proverb

Just consider that for a few seconds. It makes the words Adam Kokesh spoke yesterday at LibertyFest to a guy who asked him a question just the more relevant:

I think it’s one of the most important things Ron Paul has ever said. If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.

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If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. – Lew Goldberg

If only I got to say this to Warren Buffett.

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Who is Lew Goldberg, anyway?

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Epic:

Suppose the Second amendment said “A well-educated electorate being necessary for self-governance in a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed.” Is there anyone who would suggest that means only registered voters have a right to read? – Robert Levy

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I have no idea.

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Also relevant:

Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. – Anonymous

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The politicians’ three R’s: this is Ours, that is Ours, everything is Ours. – Anonymous

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If I accuse an innocent man of a monstrous crime, if I tell a virtuous man that he has coveted his own sister, he will reply that this is absurd. His indignation has its comical aspect. But it also has its fundamental reason. The virtuous man illustrates by that reply the definitive antinomy existing between the deed I am attributing to him and his lifelong principles. “It’s absurd” means “It’s impossible” but also “It’s contradictory.” If I see a man armed only with a sword attack a group of machine guns, I shall consider his act to be absurd. But it is so solely by virtue of the disproportion between his intention and the reality he will encounter, of the contradiction I notice between his true strength and the aim he has in view. Likewise we shall deem a verdict absurd when we contrast it with the verdict the facts apparently dictated. And, similarly, a demonstration by the absurd is achieved by comparing the consequences of such a reasoning with the logical reality one wants to set up. In all these cases, from the simplest to the most complex, the magnitude of the absurdity will be in direct ratio to the distance between the two terms of my comparison. There are absurd marriages, challenges, rancors, silences, wars, and even peace treaties. For each of them the absurdity springs from a comparison. I am thus justified in saying that the feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from the comparison between a bare fact and a certain reality, between an action and the world that transcends it. The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

  • Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”
-Dr. Demento

Nothing to do with AnCap, but just thought I’d share.

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My economics teacher response on my answer on a quiz:

“I don’t want to hear anymore of your theories. I am asking questions that require my short, to-the-point answer. Perhaps you should consider dropping this course since it doesn’t seem to meet your needs.”

the question he asked - what gives money it’s value in today’s economy?

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What did you say? Monetary regression theory?

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Pretty much, id have to reread it as i did it a couple months ago.

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I’m guessing he wanted “the goods you can purchace with it?”

What level was it?

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no its what he wanted. well kind of. He just didnt like me implying that the dollar wouldnt have its value without legal tender laws. he didnt want any history of the dollar. I made a reference that americans accepted it because it was backed by gold. and through decades of manipulation of laws that the nixon shock was able to happen. He thinks that the history of the dollar is irrelevant to any of its value today. he seems to think that people love the dollar and are pretty much begging for the dollar because the United States always pays its debts. The us is so fiscally conservative that its the safest means for stability. All of which i mentioned in my answer as part of the answer.

its a senior level class

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Translation:

“I am incapable of responding to your questions. Stop making me question my self-worth as an educator.”

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Just read civil disobedience again and I find this quote interesting —“Christ answered the Herodians according to their condition. “Show me the tribute-money,” said he – and one took a penny out of his pocket – if you use money which has the image of Caesar on it, and which he has made current and valuable, that is, if you are men of the State, and gladly enjoy the advantages of Caesar’s government, then pay him back some of his own when he demands it. “Render therefore to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God those things which are God’s” – leaving them no wiser than before as to which was which; for they did not wish to know.”

Excerpt From: Henry David Thoreau. “Civil Disobedience and other Essays.” iBooks.
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That quote made the hair on my arms stand up. Jordan is a god among men.

Clayton -

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“Perhaps you should consider dropping this course since it doesn’t seem to meet your needs.”

now that sounds like the worst kind of teacher.

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Nah, that’s sort of what teachers are there to help you do - figure out what you’re looking for and whether you’re a good fit (as wel as teach you).