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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.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
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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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
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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DAngry Education Exposure Person Subject
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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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
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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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Economics Enough Lesson Politics Satisfaction Scarcity
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Assume Automatic FAction Government Market Reason
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Decide Deserve God Role
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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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
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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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation

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