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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.

Thomas Sowell

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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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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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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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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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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