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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

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