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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.

Thomas Sowell

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Capital Government Income Market Poor
Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Choose Decide Information Inspirational People Public
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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