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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Thomas Sowell

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Be Yourself Entrepreneur Intelligence Vision
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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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Agony Blood Cheap Cost Freedom Price
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
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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Battle Peace People Violence War
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Dead Enlight Experience Human Past Tradition
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
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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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money

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