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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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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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