"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals."

-- Adam Smith

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“When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.”
“As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.”
“The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes,”
“If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles â€“ but youâ€™d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.”
“People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.”
“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.”

Source : "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.
“If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.”
“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.”

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