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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.

Thomas Sowell

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
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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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
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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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking 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
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Consitution Court Economics Government Politics
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
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
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

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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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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