"The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading."

Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

Stephan Kinsella

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“... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.”
“A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.”
“Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.”

Source : "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history". www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
“A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.”

Source : Peter Shaffer (2011). “Equus”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.”

Source : Ruth Reichl (2011). “Tender At The Bone”, p.34, Random House
“Who's world is this, the world is yours.”
“I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.”
“There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.”

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