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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

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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 called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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