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 SOWELLThe 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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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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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