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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Thomas Sowell

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
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
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
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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Beautiful Creation Politics Ugly Vision World
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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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
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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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
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
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
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
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect

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