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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

Thomas Sowell

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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
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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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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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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