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Thomas Sowell

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
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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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Assume Automatic FAction Government Market Reason
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
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
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
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
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
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
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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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame

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