Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
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Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
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Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.
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Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
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Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.
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