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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell

People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Achievement Century History Ideas Kill Power
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Choose Decide Information Inspirational People Public
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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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
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
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
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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
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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