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Vic — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:12:11 +0000

“If people did not indulge in such abject evasions as the claim that some contemptible liar ‘means well’—that a mooching bum ‘can’t help it’—that a juvenile delinquent ‘needs love’—that a criminal ‘doesn’t know any better’—that a power-seeking politician is moved by patriotic concern for ‘the public good’—that communists are merely ‘agrarian reformers’—the past few decades, or centuries, would have been different.”
-Ayn Rand

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Vic — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:14:40 +0000

“The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery,’ and ‘Thou shalt not lie’ in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.”
-George Carlin

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Vic — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:29:25 +0000

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
-Dr. Thomas Sowell

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Vic — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:55:03 +0000

“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”
-Thomas A. Edison

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Vic — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:09:50 +0000

“When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.”
-Ayn Rand

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Vic — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:31:27 +0000

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
-Groucho Marx

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Vic — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:03:33 +0000

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.”
-Samuel Adams

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Vic — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:22:09 +0000

“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone “who understands Marx and Lenin.”

-Ronald Reagan

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Vic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:41:05 +0000

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
-Ayn Rand

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Vic — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:01 +0000

-Ayn Rand