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JUST A FEW MORE INTRODUCTORY QUOTES...
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
-- Winston Churchill
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"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the
Valley of Ambiguity." -- Adam Smith
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"There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch" -- Milton Friedman, U.S.
economist (1912 - ) and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize. ["Hardcover:
318 pages | Open Court Pub Co (August 1975) | 6 used & new from $19.71" -- Amazon.com]
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"There is no free lunch, even though politicians get elected by
promising free lunches." -- Thomas Sowell, Nov. 13, 2003, Capitalism
Magazine, [Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at
the Hoover Institution]
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"Each semester, I spend a few minutes explaining to my students, both
graduate and undergraduate, the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Why? Mother Nature permits us to do many things, but she prohibits the
construction of machines of the first and second kinds. The first is a
something-for-nothing machine, and the second is a perpetual motion
machine. If students understand this, they can't be tricked into
believing there's a free lunch." -- Walter E. Williams, "There's no free
lunch," Oct 3, 2001 [John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
at George Mason University]
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"TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage 'There Ain't No Such Thing As A
Free Lunch,' popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in
his 1966 novel 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress', which discusses the
problems caused by not considering the eventual outcome of an unbalanced
economy. This phrase and book are popular with classical liberals and
economics textbooks. Similarly, the acronym 'TINSTAAFL' is used, meaning 'There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch'
-- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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"It would give an avowedly free lunch, a guaranteed basic income to
every adult resident 'with no strings attached, no questions asked.'" --
Anthony de Jasay, "Property and its Enemies, Part III: How to Get a Free
Lunch? Just Apply for It." September 1, 2003
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"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth." -- Margaret Thatcher.
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