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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.

Thomas Sowell

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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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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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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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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