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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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