Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.
~ Herta Müller
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The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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I simply wanted to go to a place that didn’t know who I was.
~ Herta Müller
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Religions get lost as people do.
~ Franz Kafka
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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