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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

Thomas Sowell

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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DAngry Education Exposure Person Subject
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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