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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.

Thomas Sowell

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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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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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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