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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder

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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

by Steve Coll

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Hemant’s Quotes

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
― Milton Friedman

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“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, free-market, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, statism, voluntaryism

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“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
― Milton Friedman

tags: equality, freedom

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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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