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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

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
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Black Black Lives Matter Comparison Funny Parents White
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
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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Age Care Courtesy Excuse Goodness Humble Young
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Achievement Century History Ideas Kill Power
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade

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