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

Thomas Sowell

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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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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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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