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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?

Thomas Sowell

The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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