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“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
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“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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“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
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“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.”
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