People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
THOMAS SOWELLDon’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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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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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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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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