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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

Thomas Sowell

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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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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 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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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