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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Thomas Sowell

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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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
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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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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

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