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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

Thomas Sowell

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
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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Beautiful Creation Politics Ugly Vision World
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
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
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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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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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble

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