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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.

Thomas Sowell

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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Concentration Ideas Institution Surprise Survive Work
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
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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Decide Deserve God Role
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
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ego Elite Mass State Welfare
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
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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Capital Government Income Market Poor
I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success
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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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
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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Basketball Black Black Lives Matter Racism Suicide
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom

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