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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

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