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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.

Thomas Sowell

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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Decide Deserve God Role
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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