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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.

Thomas Sowell

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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