"Competition is merely the absence of oppression."

-- Frederic Bastiat

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“The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ***** begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.”
“One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.”
“Thinking about her again caused his body to harden, to ready... "Uh, I'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but I had no idea you would like it so much," Paris muttered. For the first time in hundreds of years, Maddox felt a blush creep into his cheek, "It's not for you." "Thank the gods," was his friends reply. -Maddox and Paris”
“We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.”
“When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.”

Source : "New Again: Alec Baldwin". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 19, 2012.
“I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.”
“We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.”

Source : "Ashcroft, senators offer plans to investigate FBI" by From Terry Freiden, www.cnn.com. June 20, 2001.
“It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.”

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