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

Thomas Sowell

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
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
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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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame

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