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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Thomas Sowell

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

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