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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” — Marie Curie

Reality Check: Sixteen Years Enslaved , by @ScottHolleran open.substack.com/pub/scottholle…

I agree with Mr. Rogers 100 percent. Trust your own judgment is a premise of my coaching—whether in writing, dance, wellness or weight loss—which was affirmed with consistency by my mentor, Leonard Peikoff.

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Watch the Q&A which followed the Burbank, California premiere of “Henry Dances”. I’m on stage in middle seat between moderator of audience questions, independent movie producer and formal @UniversalPics executive David LaCour Simien and independent screenwriter and director Mike Voutsinos, my former writing student on campus where this took place. Running time: 38 minutes: …rtstoriesbyscottholleran.substack.com/p/watch-henry-…

Scott Holleran (@ScottHolleran) is an abolitionist on ObamaCare: scottholleran.substack.com/p/sixteen-year…

On this date in 1992, we lost one of our greatest minds: Friedrich A. von Hayek. His writing shone a light on the horrors of totalitarianism. He mounted vital critiques of centrally planned economies and theorised how knowledge moves through society using markets and their signals. His theories grounded some of the best economic reforms of the 20th century. Thanks to Hayek, we are all better off.

Just a small reminder that the best book ever written about money, inflation and the evil shenanigans of central banks is now available in English. geni.us/The_Essence_of…

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely that hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.”

Never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word. It means they learned it from reading a book.

If everyone agrees too quickly, somebody forgot to think.

Today's #WordOfTheDay is antiquarian. Learn more about this word: bit.ly/4rTSTcC

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of the worst days of my life. Not because I lacked compassion for the uninsured, but because I watched a nation founded on individual rights applaud as its government seized control of the most intimate decisions a human being can make about his own body and his own life. Thanks to his so called Affordable Care Act I now pay approximately $29,000/year for myself and my wife's yearly insurance premiums. Obama calls it his "proudest moment." Of course he does. Every collectivist in history has been proudest on the day he fastened the chains. The ACA did not give anyone "access to healthcare." It forced every American to purchase a product under penalty of law, compelled doctors to practice under government dictation, and conscripted the productive to finance the consumption of others. That is not compassion. It is naked compulsion. "Pre-existing conditions" became the moral shield behind which the entire edifice was built. No one dared question it because no one dared say what Rand would have said: you do not have a right to the labor of another human being. Not to his mind. Not to his skill. Not to his time. No matter how sick you are. Need is not a claim. Suffering is not a mortgage on the lives of those who can help. This was not progress. It was surrender.

‘Rage’ and ‘outrage’ aren’t etymologically related. ‘Rage’ is from the Latin ‘rabere’ (to be mad). ‘Outrage’ is from Anglo-French ‘utrage’ (insult), from Latin 'ultra' (beyond). We hope this doesn’t make you mad.

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Sixteen stories in which to escape, behold and think about: books.apple.com/us/book/long-r…

Prohibition helped what animal bounce back from the brink of extinction?

Yesterday was my birthday. Another year of looking in the mirror and thinking, "what, this guy again?" I celebrated with Sue, Jack, my sisters, and an undisclosed amount of sugar. Here we go, #79 🎂