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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

People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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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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