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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.

Thomas Sowell

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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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 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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