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

Thomas Sowell

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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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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