Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELLFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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