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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.

Thomas Sowell

No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Government Greedy Money Tax
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
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
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
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
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Appreciate DAngry Failure Honor People Trust
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Attitude Fashion Galaxy Imagination Information People
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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
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

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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