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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.

Thomas Sowell

The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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Civil History Nation People Position
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
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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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
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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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Battle Peace People Violence War
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
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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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social
People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
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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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation

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