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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
— Thomas Sowell
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
— Thomas Sowell
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
— Thomas Sowell
History is the memory of a nation
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If a word means everything, then in means nothing.
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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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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
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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.
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The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.
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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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A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
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Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
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The real minimum wage is zero.
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Government "planning" is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people's plans.
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Have you gone crazy, Lefty?" "No. On the contrary, I have become educated." "Sometimes that's worse, these days.
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Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
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Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
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Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
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How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
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The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
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As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
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Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
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Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. Fortunemagazine{115}
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The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
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If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
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Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don't.
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
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Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.
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Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
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Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
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It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.
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Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
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If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
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Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
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Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
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It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.
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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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A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
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When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
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Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
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All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
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Reality is not optional.
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
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People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
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No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
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Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.
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Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.
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High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
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Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.
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There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
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