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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.

Thomas Sowell

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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Department Diversity Republic Social Time
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Decide Deserve God Role
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
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
Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Born Business Capital Company Failure Inspirational
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Decision Insight Knowledge Society Talent Throw
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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
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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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
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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Complain Produce Refuse Sad Time
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

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