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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.

Thomas Sowell

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
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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Acceptance Education Ideas Intelligence People Virtue
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Battle Peace People Violence War
No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Capital Government Income Market Poor
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Honesty Human Nature Man Panic Spread
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
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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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Complain Produce Refuse Sad Time
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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Concentration Ideas Institution Surprise Survive Work
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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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge

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