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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Thomas Sowell

Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
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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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
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
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
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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Complain Government Money Politics Promise Vote
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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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
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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Department Diversity Republic Social Time
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Enjoyment Ignorance Moral People Superior Try
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
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom

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