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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.

Thomas Sowell

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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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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