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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

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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Explanation Help Let Go People Tuth Yourself
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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Decide Deserve God Role
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
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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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
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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Character Management Racism Record Time
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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Black Black Lives Matter Comparison Funny Parents White
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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.
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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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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
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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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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