Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
THOMAS SOWELLThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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