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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

Thomas Sowell

No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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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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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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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