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It's easy to believe that you came into the world with a prearranged program you must follow. After all, long before you arrived, other people figured out how you should live, what laws you should obey, what your obligations are, the whole structure for a 'proper' life… Are you willing to give up the one life you have in order to conform to the way others think you should live?

— Harry Browne How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (1973)

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Freedom is more often lost by false assumptions than by the power of one's enemies.

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If an individual is required to give up his own happiness for society, of what value is society to him?

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