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

Thomas Sowell

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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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 fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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 amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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