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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.

Thomas Sowell

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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