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Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
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Washington
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John Calvin Thomas
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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