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"Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're always busy "reforming" is an implicit admission that they didn't get it right the first 50 times."
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Source: Lawrence S. Kubie (1966). “Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process”
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