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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Thomas Sowell

No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
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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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
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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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
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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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
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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Consequences Contribution Economics People Politics Society
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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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
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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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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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

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