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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Thomas Sowell

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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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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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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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