No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
THOMAS SOWELL
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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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 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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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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