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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.

Thomas Sowell

I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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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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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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