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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

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
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’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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