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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

Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Born Business Capital Company Failure Inspirational
Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Character Management Racism Record Time
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
The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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Civil History Nation People Position
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
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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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
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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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Complain Produce Refuse Sad Time
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Blood History Human Politics Story Treasure
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
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

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