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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.

Thomas Sowell

Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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