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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.

Thomas Sowell

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
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
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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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation
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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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
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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Choose Decide Information Inspirational People Public
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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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
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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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity

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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