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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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