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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

Thomas Sowell

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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Battle Peace People Violence War
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
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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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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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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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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Freedom Government Liberty Money People World
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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