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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Thomas Sowell

The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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Freedom Government Liberty Money People World
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
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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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
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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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
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
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
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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Explanation Help Let Go People Tuth Yourself
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 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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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