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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Thomas Sowell

Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Character Management Racism Record Time
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
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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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social
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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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Black Black Lives Matter Comparison Funny Parents White
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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