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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

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
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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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
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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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Absence Acceptance Civil Defend Force Prepare
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Decide Deserve God Role
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust

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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