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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

Thomas Sowell

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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Doer Specialty Talker
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

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