Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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It 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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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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