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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.

Thomas Sowell

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
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
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
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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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
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
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Beautiful Creation Politics Ugly Vision World
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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Absence Born Civil Effect Generation Late
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Ending Equality Freedom Society
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
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
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Battle Peace People Violence War
Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard
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 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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Consitution Court Economics Government Politics
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study

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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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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