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Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
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
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
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
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 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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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Ending Equality Freedom Society
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
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
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
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
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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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window

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