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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?

Thomas Sowell

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Achievement Century History Ideas Kill Power
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
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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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Blood History Human Politics Story Treasure
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Assume Automatic FAction Government Market Reason
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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Ear Eat Instrument Music People True Weight Loss
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Honesty Human Nature Man Panic Spread
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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