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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

The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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 enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Charge Excitement Meeting One Liner People
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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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