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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell

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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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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