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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Thomas Sowell

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

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