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" Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. "
Thomas Sowell
People
Help
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" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "
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" A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. "
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" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "
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" The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. "
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" Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. "
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" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "
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" Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. "
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" In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. "
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" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "
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" The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. "
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Enough
Politics
" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "
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" Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. "
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" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "
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People
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" A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. "
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Demand
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" Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses. "
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Gender
Dare
" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "
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Born
Generation
Late
" There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. "
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Only
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" If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. "
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Civilization
Down
Going
" There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? "
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Question
Consequences
Words
" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "
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" The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. "
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Office
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" All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. "
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Rich
Political
Politics
" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "
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Important
Tell
" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "
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Live
" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "
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" Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. "
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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 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "
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You
Today
" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "
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People
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" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "
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People
Blame
Behind
" 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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