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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

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 history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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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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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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