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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

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
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
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
The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Absence Acceptance Civil Defend Force Prepare
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
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
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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Distribution Earn Economics Income Literature Money
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
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
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
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
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
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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Capital Government Income Market Poor

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