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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

Thomas Sowell

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
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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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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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
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
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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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