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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
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 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
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.

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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.

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