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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

Thomas Sowell

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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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