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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?

Thomas Sowell

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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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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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 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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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