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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.

Thomas Sowell

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
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
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
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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Battle Peace People Violence War
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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Department Diversity Republic Social Time
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
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
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
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
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
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
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study

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