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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.

Thomas Sowell

The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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.
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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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