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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Thomas Sowell

The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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
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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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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