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Lines, excerpts on stoicism, ancap, anti-communism, Austrian economics and Bitcoin.

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Inflation isn't a bug. It's the enforcement mechanism.
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“Marxists think history is something that needs to be overcome. Especially the history of Marxist genocides, famines and atrocities.” -@TheAliceSmith
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“More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.” -Ludwig von Mises, 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (1927)
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“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.” ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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“The expansion of credit cannot form a substitute for capital.” -Ludwig von Mises, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵 (1912)
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A man with savings is dangerous to a system built on debt.
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“The range of human knowledge and expertise is limited for any given person or for any manageably-sized collection of administrators. Only a certain number of links in the great chain of production and distribution can be mastered and operated efficiently by the same set of people. Beyond some point, there are other people with different skills and experience who can perform the next step in the sequence more cheaply or more effectively—” -Thomas Sowell
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“It’s said that luck materializes when preparation meets opportunity.” -@RealDougCasey
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“Virtue signalling is not virtue. Virtue signalling is, quite possibly, our commonest vice.” -@jordanbpeterson
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̶Q̶u̶a̶n̶t̶i̶t̶a̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶E̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ Helicopter Money.
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Most people will be lured into the #CBDC system simply because 'it is convenient.'
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“Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever. Perhaps new paths of inquiry must be explored, if the successful, final solution of the State question is ever to be attained.” -Murray Rothbard, 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 (1965)
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Injury is better than atrophy.
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#Bitcoin has been working exactly as intended for 6,511 days now. Ignore the noise.
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“Animal Farm is not a book about how pigs—animals—when bestowed with power start to behave like men. It is a book about how men, when given power over other men, start to behave like pigs.” -George Orwell
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The smallest unit of sovereignty is the individual with self-custody.
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“The world today gives government secrecy while stripping individuals of privacy. Time to flip it. #bitcoin” -@aantonop
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̶B̶a̶l̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶S̶h̶e̶e̶t̶ ̶E̶x̶p̶a̶n̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ Helicopter Money.
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The best revenge is a life well-lived.
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“No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” -George Orwell, 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦, 1946
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