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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Thomas Sowell

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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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The 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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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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