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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.

Thomas Sowell

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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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