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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

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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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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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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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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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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