Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELLThe question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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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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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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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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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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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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