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

Thomas Sowell

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Enjoyment Ignorance Moral People Superior Try
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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
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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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
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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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.

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