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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.

Thomas Sowell

Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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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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