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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.

Thomas Sowell

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
Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Deep Healing Ignorance One Liner Reality
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Consider Ignorance Knowledge Realize
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
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 has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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
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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Capital Government Income Market Poor
Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Choose Decide Information Inspirational People Public
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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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