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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Beautiful Creation Politics Ugly Vision World
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
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 government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation
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
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
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
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
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
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
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Ending Equality Freedom Society
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
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 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

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