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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.

Thomas Sowell

Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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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