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Give me a break.
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Give Me
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Wealthier is healthier.
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I was a closet stutterer.
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I like taking the subway to work.
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Subway
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I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.
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Libertarian
Terrible
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I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.
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Ashamed
People
Struggle
Me People See
Struggle Me People
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Good government has to mean less government.
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Government
Mean
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Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
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Ought
Businesses
Discriminate
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Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.
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Company
Customers
Hurt
Rich
Companies
Hurting
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Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.
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Complexes
Manipulate
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The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.
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People
Political
Shut Up
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Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?
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Allowing
America
Choices
People
Choice
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Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?
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Entitled
Entitlement
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Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."
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Give Me
Giving
Safety
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There's no business that's too small for government to torture
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Government
Politics
Torture
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All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.
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Government
Bigger
Erosion
Rights
Eroded
Gets
Gradually
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People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.
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Free Stuff
Government Free People
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Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions
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Decision
Individual
Life Is
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As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.
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Dying
Ought
Persons
Allowed
Free Person
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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
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Happiness
Inspiration
Meaningful
Purpose
Skills
Towards
Test
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The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.
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Government
Needs
Politician
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The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.
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Government
Government Regulation
Miserable
People
Regulation
Government People Who
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Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
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Government
Groups
Monopoly
Government Better Will
Private
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I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.
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Anchors
Wanted
Years
Anchor
Suddenly
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When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort
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Effort
Equal
Return
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It’s not about electing the right people. It’s about a narrowing their responsibilities.
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People
Responsibility
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David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
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Economics
Guides
Years
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Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.
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Government
People
Poor
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The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
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Fronts
Willing
Happiest
Stutter
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No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.
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Thinking
Transactions
Winning
Transaction
Voluntary
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The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
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I've Learned
One Thing
Stuttering
Things I've Learned
The One Thing
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When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
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Entrepreneur
Pie
Share
Compete
Entrepreneurs
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We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.
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Government
Compensation
Efficient
Kind
Lawyer
Lawyers
Systems
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Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.
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Break
Giving
Years
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Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
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Argument
Fighting
Time Fight Me
Alert
Hear
Liberals
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Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.
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Government
Doe
Groups
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Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.
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Running
Government
Scams
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Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state.
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Government
Income
Population
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Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.
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Children
Manhattan
People
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[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.
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Government
Balance
Want
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
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Army
Borders
Country
Goods
Trade
Armies
Cross
Invade
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Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.
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Government
Giving
Wealth
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Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
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Death
America
Give Me
Giving
Safety
Absolutely
Did
Henry
Supposed
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What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.
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Imperfect
People
Ripped
Years
Consumer
Reporting
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Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
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Competition
Drug
Drug Companies
Trustworthy
Leads
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Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
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Choices
Country
Dying
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Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
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Choices
Dying
Free Country
Aside
Limit
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A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.
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Care
People
Thinking
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Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.
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Company
Honest
Threat
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I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.
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Great Me More
Unpaid
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