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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.

Thomas Sowell

The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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.
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