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Labour's (Only Gay in the Cabinet plus a few others) Wes Streeting might not remember his tweets from 2009, but they're getting aired anyway


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What is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?
Thomas Sowell

I never understood why it is greed to want to keep your own money, but not greed to want to take someone else's.
Thomas Sowell

"Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'Social Justice.'"
Thomas Sowell

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination.
Thomas Sowell

If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself for your compassion.
Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three [now more like six] decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

"What I most disliked about Harvard was that smug assumptions were too often treated as substitutes for evidence or logic. The idea seemed to be that if we bright and good fellows all believed something, it must be true."
Thomas Sowell
 
What is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?
Thomas Sowell

I never understood why it is greed to want to keep your own money, but not greed to want to take someone else's.
Thomas Sowell

"Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'Social Justice.'"
Thomas Sowell

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination.
Thomas Sowell

If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself for your compassion.
Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three [now more like six] decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowell

"What I most disliked about Harvard was that smug assumptions were too often treated as substitutes for evidence or logic. The idea seemed to be that if we bright and good fellows all believed something, it must be true."
Thomas Sowell

Doesn't the last one mean all the others are just smug assumptions. :unsure:
 
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