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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

Thomas Sowell

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Blood History Human Politics Story Treasure
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
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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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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
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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.

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