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“The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail. The administration's central activity - the political allocation of wealth and opportunity - is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.”

“As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.”

Way Seems Failing Talent Produce Expected Providence

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.”

Needs I Can Ideas Country Left Loses Failing Danger Produce Listening Claims Debate Agendas Sensible Conventional Socialist Unemployment Conventional Wisdom

Author:Jo Grimond

“True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.”

Giving Light Sun Failing Produce Cease Good Work True Faith

Author:Martin Luther

“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.”

Ifs Giving Trying Doe Self Reason Kids Games Grows Parent Responsibility Growing Up Failing Produce Healthy Adults Self Confidence Fixed Dependent

Author:Simon Sinek

“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.”

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.”

People Ifs Clear Failing Produce Confidence Mere Suspicion Disposition Distrust Inclination Faithfulness Fidelity Begets Accusation Disdain Treachery

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.”

Want Failing Produce Depends Benevolence Politeness Disagreeable

Book:A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.”

Loses Wealth Results Failing Produce Taxes Beats Percent Gains Investing Fund Destroying Margins Annuals Vanguard Index Funds

Author:David F. Swensen

“Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.”