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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.

Thomas Sowell

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
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Assume Automatic FAction Government Market Reason
I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
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
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
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
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
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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Achievement Century History Ideas Kill Power
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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Acceptance Education Ideas Intelligence People Virtue
The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
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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Ear Eat Instrument Music People True Weight Loss
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study

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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