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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

Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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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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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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