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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Thomas Sowell

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Assume Automatic FAction Government Market Reason
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
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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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Complain Government Money Politics Promise Vote
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

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