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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.

Thomas Sowell

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
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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DAngry Education Exposure Person Subject
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Economics Enough Lesson Politics Satisfaction Scarcity
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
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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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
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
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Complain Produce Refuse Sad 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
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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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Honesty Human Nature Man Panic Spread
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success

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