It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
THOMAS SOWELLIf 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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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