One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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