Beware Of Assumptions That Seem "obvious" In

All This Talk Of Using Tax Policy To 'assess Social Costs'...what A Dumb Idea. The Only Way To Stop Polluters Is To Put Them Against Walls And Shoot Them.

Only A Knowledgeable, Empowered And Vocal Citizenry Can Perform Well In Democracy.

The Worst Mistake Of First Contact, Made Throughout History By Individuals On Both Sides Of Every New Encounter, Has Been The Unfortunate Habit Of Making Assumptions. It Often Proved Fatal.

In All Of History, We Have Found Just One Cure For Error—a Partial Antidote Against Making And Repeating Grand, Foolish Mistakes, A Remedy Against Self-deception. That Antidote Is Criticism.

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