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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.

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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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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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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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