Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution, " the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Thomas Sowell
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  1. It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

  2. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

  3. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

  4. 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.

  5. Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

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