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People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because read more
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if read more
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Don Juan.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man read more
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
