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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

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation
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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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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