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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Thomas Sowell

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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

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