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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

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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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