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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.

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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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

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