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“Bascal laughed. "You can't actually believe that, boyo. When was the last no-confidence vote in the Senate? The people of Earth were tired of responsibility; they forced it on my parents, and wouldn't take it back now even if they could.”
― The Wellstone
― The Wellstone
“I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
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“The feeling that the government should “do something” has seldom been based on a comparison of what actually happens when government does and when it does not “do something.”
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
― Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
“Maybe that's the way of things, too. That the more beautiful a thing is, the shorter it seems to last. People no less than flowers.”
― This Broken World
― This Broken World
“They agree with the current customs. They consent with an impure age. Their principles have a semblance of right-heartedness and truth. Their conduct has a semblance of disinterestedness and purity. All men are pleased with them, and they think themselves right, but you cannot enter into the Way of Yao and Shun with them. For this reason they are called “The thieves of virtue.”
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