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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Thomas Sowell

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Honesty Human Nature Man Panic Spread
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
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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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
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
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
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
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
No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Capital Government Income Market Poor
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Advocate Government Party Politics Understand
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
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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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired

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