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

Thomas Sowell

Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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