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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.

Thomas Sowell

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
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
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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Distribution Earn Economics Income Literature Money
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
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
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
Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Character Management Racism Record Time
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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
The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Ear Eat Instrument Music People True Weight Loss
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
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
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity

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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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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