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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.

Thomas Sowell

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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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