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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- Nov 07, 2020
The real minimum wage is zero.
- Bracket
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020