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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

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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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Capital Government Income Market Poor
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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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
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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