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“Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.”

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Richard Ebeling is a renowned economist, author, and speaker. Born on January 30, 1950, he is known for his profound understanding of free-market economics and his contributions to economic theory. more

“I always felt, and I still feel, that the media doesn't belong in a public official's private life. It's a very difficult balance, because if you are elected to public office, people have a right to know a great deal about you, and the press has an absolute obligation to report all of that. But the reality is that there are times in which the reporting is really happening for almost voyeuristic reasons, in the gossip columns. Maybe half of it is wrong, and half of it is correct, and a lot of it is exaggerated. You've just got to get used to that if you're in public life.”

“Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?”

Men Deny Violent Violent Man

Book:The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings

Source: The Essence of T. H. Huxley: Selections Form His Writings

“I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”

People Ifs World I Can Purpose Found Moral Economy Exercise Benefits Intellectual Weight Importance Clever Practicals Great Men Tenacity Cleverness Frugality

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.”

Made I Can Dies Argument Suicide Mediums Demonstration Crossings Spiritualism Guinea Sweepers

Author:Thomas Huxley

“If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.”

World Looks Reality Turns Sea Share Weakness Rounds Awful Ministers Enterprise Necks Thrown Tied Cover Ups

Book:Readings from Huxley

Source: Readings from Huxley

“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

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