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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
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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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
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
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
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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Capital Government Income Market Poor
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
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
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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Beautiful Creation Politics Ugly Vision World
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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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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