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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

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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