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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Thomas Sowell

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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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
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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 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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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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 really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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