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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

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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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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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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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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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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