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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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DAngry Education Exposure Person Subject
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
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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Ear Eat Instrument Music People True Weight Loss
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
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
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Honesty Human Nature Man Panic Spread

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