James Cook

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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
- James Cook
Collection: Women
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Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
- James Cook
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Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
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Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.
- James Cook
Collection: Opportunity
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Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.
- James Cook
Collection: Done
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To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.
- James Cook
Collection: People
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Struggle is the architect of the soul.
- James Cook
Collection: Struggle
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
- James Cook
Collection: Reality
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We can never right the wrongs of the past.
- James Cook
Collection: Past
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
- James Cook
Collection: Matter
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Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
- James Cook
Collection: Government
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Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
- James Cook
Collection: Independent
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A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
- James Cook
Collection: Journey
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Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
- James Cook
Collection: Adversity
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
- James Cook
Collection: Fall
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It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
- James Cook
Collection: Mother
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There is no help from without, only from within.
- James Cook
Collection: Helping
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Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.
- James Cook
Collection: Opportunity
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Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.
- James Cook
Collection: Atheist
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It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.
- James Cook
Collection: Have Faith
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Everybody lives an epic.
- James Cook
Collection: Epic
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Without memory there are no worries.
- James Cook
Collection: Memories
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
- James Cook
Collection: Missing
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Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.
- James Cook
Collection: People
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
- James Cook
Collection: Perspective
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Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.
- James Cook
Collection: Government
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
- James Cook
Collection: Profit
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The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.
- James Cook
Collection: Outcomes
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Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
- James Cook
Collection: Believe
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Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
- James Cook
Collection: Issues
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The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.
- James Cook
Collection: Government
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The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
- James Cook
Collection: Socialism
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The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
- James Cook
Collection: Agendas
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Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
- James Cook
Collection: Class
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Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
- James Cook
Collection: Belief
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Socialism was made to order for tyrants.
- James Cook
Collection: Order
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Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
- James Cook
Collection: Government
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Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.
- James Cook
Collection: Men
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The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.
- James Cook
Collection: People
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People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy.
- James Cook
Collection: Ideas
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Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
- James Cook
Collection: Progress
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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
- James Cook
Collection: Insanity
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Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?
- James Cook
Collection: Government
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Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.
- James Cook
Collection: Embrace
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Gasahol is socialism's fuel.
- James Cook
Collection: Fuel
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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
- James Cook
Collection: Government
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At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.
- James Cook
Collection: Morning
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It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.
- James Cook
Collection: Use
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People rarely use advice.
- James Cook
Collection: People
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
- James Cook
Collection: Subsidies