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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

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
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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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
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
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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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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