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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Thomas Sowell

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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