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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Harry Browne

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Harry Browne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 17
Died: 2006
Died: March 1
Financial Analyst
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Politician
Radio Personality
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New York City
New York
Harry Edson Browne
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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
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