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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.

Thomas Sowell

No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
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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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
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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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Freedom Government Justice Law Liberty People
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social
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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Arrangement Economics Government Institution Market Situation
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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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
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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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
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
We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Concentration Ideas Institution Surprise Survive Work

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