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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.

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