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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.

Thomas Sowell

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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