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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.

Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
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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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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