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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

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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