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Whatever you subsidize you get more of. -- James Cook
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Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. -- James Cook
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but -- James Cook
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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal. -- James Cook
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To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness. -- James Cook
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Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn. -- James Cook
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Gasahol is socialism's fuel. -- James Cook
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Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes. -- James Cook
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Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare. -- James Cook
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary. -- James Cook
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in this Traffick they would frequently keep our goods and make no return, tell at last I was obliged to fire a Musquet ball Close past one man who had served us in this manner after which they observed a little more honisty and at length several of them came on board. -- James Cook
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. -- James Cook
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit. -- James Cook
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What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius. -- James Cook
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In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right. -- James Cook
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Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most. -- James Cook
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The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism. -- James Cook
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Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences. -- James Cook
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Money could never have originated as paper. -- James Cook
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Good times weaken belief. -- James Cook
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With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment. -- James Cook
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Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else. -- James Cook
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Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life. -- James Cook
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The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners. -- James Cook
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We are coerced into faith by our suffering. -- James Cook
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Governments institutionalize something for nothing. -- James Cook
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Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers. -- James Cook
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Prayer is futility when compared to belief. -- James Cook
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The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners. -- James Cook
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The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit. -- James Cook
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At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility. -- James Cook
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It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism. -- James Cook
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Without memory there are no worries. -- James Cook
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The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics. -- James Cook
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself. -- James Cook
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Time flies when you're running out of money. -- James Cook
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The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda. -- James Cook
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Better to have something to say than to have to say something. -- James Cook
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The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice. -- James Cook
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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings. -- James Cook
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Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency. -- James Cook
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Never underestimate the incompetence of government. -- James Cook
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Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job. -- James Cook
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Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through. -- James Cook
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You can't suffer over two things at once. -- James Cook
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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient. -- James Cook
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Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less. -- James Cook
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity. -- James Cook
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The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist. -- James Cook
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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress. -- James Cook
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Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve. -- James Cook
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Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it. -- James Cook
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in which great difficulties are found to the present day by Englishmen, whose language presents no certain laws for rendering any given sound into a fixed combination of letters. -- James Cook
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The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love. -- James Cook
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We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it. -- James Cook
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The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector. -- James Cook
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Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class. -- James Cook
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From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was. -- James Cook
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Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't. -- James Cook
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The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior. -- James Cook
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The government is worst which governs most. -- James Cook
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The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security. -- James Cook
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There is a reason and not a reason for everything. -- James Cook
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith. -- James Cook
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious. -- James Cook
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If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.' -- James Cook
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Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse. -- James Cook
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Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits. -- James Cook
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Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit. -- James Cook
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Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal. -- James Cook
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Employers know the nature of people best. -- James Cook
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I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea. -- James Cook
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People rarely use advice. -- James Cook
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Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit. -- James Cook
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When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife. -- James Cook
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Knaves will come and knaves will go. -- James Cook
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The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see. -- James Cook
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Struggle is the architect of the soul. -- James Cook
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A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa. -- James Cook
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The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person. -- James Cook
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The more welfare, the more crime. -- James Cook
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Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics. -- James Cook
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Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.? -- James Cook
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Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man. -- James Cook
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That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying. -- James Cook
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Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck. -- James Cook
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There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand? -- James Cook
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Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer. -- James Cook
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Taxes cause the most bad business decisions. -- James Cook
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To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own. -- James Cook
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The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation. -- James Cook
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Hardly anything works out as well as we hope. -- James Cook
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Getting is more fun than having. -- James Cook
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We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others. -- James Cook
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania. -- James Cook
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It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies. -- James Cook
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People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem. -- James Cook
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Everybody lives an epic. -- James Cook
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No resource will flourish if managed by government. -- James Cook
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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity. -- James Cook
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A free ride is life's most difficult journey. -- James Cook
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Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies. -- James Cook
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The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs. -- James Cook
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business. -- James Cook
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The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God. -- James Cook
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No role in life is more important than to be a good mother. -- James Cook
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There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views. -- James Cook
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Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives. -- James Cook
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Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it. -- James Cook
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Suffering perfects the soul. -- James Cook
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There is no help from without, only from within. -- James Cook
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Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which. -- James Cook
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Investors believe in the best possible outcome. -- James Cook
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Government regulators are another name for police. -- James Cook
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others. -- James Cook
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Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents. -- James Cook
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To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn. -- James Cook
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The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin. -- James Cook
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The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them. -- James Cook
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Advice from others is always filtered through self interest. -- James Cook
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What is written is more influential than what is said. -- James Cook
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It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother. -- James Cook
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Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason. -- James Cook
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business. -- James Cook
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Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted. -- James Cook
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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles. -- James Cook
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Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it. -- James Cook
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Government is not competent enough to regulate. -- James Cook
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It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith. -- James Cook
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Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. -- James Cook
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Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own. -- James Cook
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Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do. -- James Cook
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Most everything government does is worse than useless. -- James Cook
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The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character. -- James Cook
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Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it. -- James Cook
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Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe. -- James Cook
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Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal. -- James Cook
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Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth. -- James Cook
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God has the experience that comes from billions of years. -- James Cook
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Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there. -- James Cook
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Faith must be worked at. -- James Cook
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Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them. -- James Cook
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The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis. -- James Cook
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Easier will always win out over harder. -- James Cook
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance. -- James Cook
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Management is simple, innovation is hard. -- James Cook
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Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer. -- James Cook
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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence. -- James Cook
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The soul is that part of you in harmony with God. -- James Cook
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Better to build orphanages than prisons. -- James Cook
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We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system. -- James Cook
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Socialism was made to order for tyrants. -- James Cook
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Beware the person who is on a hot streak. -- James Cook
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Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most. -- James Cook
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If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die. -- James Cook
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If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit. -- James Cook
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. -- James Cook
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Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze. -- James Cook
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You can't think in sound bytes. -- James Cook
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it. -- James Cook
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When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market. -- James Cook
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Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics. -- James Cook
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous. -- James Cook
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Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly. -- James Cook
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Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees. -- James Cook
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People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy. -- James Cook
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Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice. -- James Cook
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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. -- James Cook
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The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires. -- James Cook
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. -- James Cook
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Nobody heeds danger when they're making money. -- James Cook
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The government endangers us with our own money. -- James Cook
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Taxes are a penalty on progress. -- James Cook
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We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism. -- James Cook
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When you are aggrieved you learn. -- James Cook
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There are alternate explanations for everything. -- James Cook
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Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal. -- James Cook
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What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case. -- James Cook
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The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results. -- James Cook
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Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. -- James Cook
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We can never right the wrongs of the past. -- James Cook
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Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government. -- James Cook
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The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with. -- James Cook
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Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails. -- James Cook
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves. -- James Cook
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When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows. -- James Cook
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The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure. -- James Cook
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All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance. -- James Cook
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Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one. -- James Cook
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted. -- James Cook
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Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement. -- James Cook