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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.

Thomas Sowell

Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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