Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELLDon’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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