"The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'."

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Source : Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

Jon Elster

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“There are two kinds of systems in the world. There are many-party systems and there are two-party systems. And our English cousins, both England, Canada, Australia, India, tend to have majority rule elections, rather than proportional elections and that tends to lead them to have two sort of competing parties. So in England, you know, it's been, you know, since the '20's, that anybody other than Labor or the Conservatives have formed a government and gotten a Prime Minister in the Cabinet, and so on.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Perception starts with the eye.”
“At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.”

Source : Sean Hannity (2009). “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism”, p.14, Zondervan
“I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will....I have come to peace with myself, my God, and my cause. Blood will flow in the streets, Steve, Good vs Evil. Free men vs. Socialist Wannabe Slaves. Pray it is not your blood, my friend.”
“I don't have anything to prove at all. I've pitched in a lot of games. I've had far more good games than bad games in the postseason. I know that some people may not remember that, for whatever reason.”
“A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.”
“When someone like Steven Soderbergh asks you to do a film you know you're in good hands. You know it's going to be slick, and it's going to be intelligent, and it's going to have a kind of style to it, and I would probably have done anything to be really honest.”
“We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.”

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