If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
THOMAS SOWELLIt is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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