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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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DAngry Decision Imagination People Price Stupidity
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Afford Government Pay People Positive Thinking
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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Complain Produce Refuse Sad Time
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Ear Eat Instrument Music People True Weight Loss
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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