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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.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Honesty Human Nature Man Panic Spread
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
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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Freedom Government Liberty Money People World
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
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Decision Insight Knowledge Society Talent Throw
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
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
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Capital Government Income Market Poor
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Absence Acceptance Civil Defend Force Prepare

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