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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
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People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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