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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

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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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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