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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

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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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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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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