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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

No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
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
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
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Economics Enough Lesson Politics Satisfaction Scarcity
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
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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DAngry Education Exposure Person Subject
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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