"You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation."

-- Henry Hazlitt

#Men Quotes #Community Quotes #Permit Quotes

“God uses rescued people to rescue people.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 30, 2017
“Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.”

Source : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
“Out of many shared years. One life.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”
“The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.”
“When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.”
“Why is she convinced Ambrose is out to get her" Leif asked "Ambrose?" Yelena raised a slender eyebrow. She carried a tray of tea and fruit. "You're on a first name basis with the Commander now?" "I usually call him Amby, but not in mixed company.”
“Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings are integral components of the world these accounts articulate - that, for example, we are simply material bodies subject to the same natural processes as everything else.”
“Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.”

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