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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

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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 media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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