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by Thomas Pynchon

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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt

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A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily ...more

Human Action: Scholar's Edition (LvMI)

by Ludwig von Mises

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John’s Quotes

“Anticapitalism can maintain itself in existence only by sponging on capitalism.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism

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“Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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