Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELLThere are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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