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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

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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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