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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

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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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 doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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