"Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment."

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Source : Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business

Henry Hazlitt

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“I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.”
“What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?”
“You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.”
“Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.”
“Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior.”
“You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.”
“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.”
“I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different.”

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