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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Thomas Sowell

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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