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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

Thomas Sowell

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

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