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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Thomas Sowell

No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Decision Insight Knowledge Society Talent Throw
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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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
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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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Ending Equality Freedom Society
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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Consequences Contribution Economics People Politics Society
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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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
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
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
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful

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