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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

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
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Distribution Earn Economics Income Literature Money
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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Acceptance Education Ideas Intelligence People Virtue
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence

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