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

Thomas Sowell

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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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