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RE: Truth can sometimes be harmful...(talk.cpunks.truth)
At 3:24 PM -0400 5/24/96, blanc wrote:
> "We are able to act at all - that is to say, we have the power
> to order our conduct in such a way that the ends we desire
> can be attained - only because the phenomena of the world
> are governed not by arbitrariness, but by laws that we have
> the capacity to know something about. If it were otherwise,
> we should be completely at the mercy of forces that we should
> be unable to understand."
> ~ Human Action, Ludwig Von Mises
>
Or, the terse version, from my old .sig:
"Reality is not optional"
-- Thomas Sowell
;-).
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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