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Thomas Sowell

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.
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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Education Evidence Intellectual Logic Student
When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Alternative Choose Failure Hate People Success
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Acceptance Agree Evidence
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
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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Battle Peace People Violence War
No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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Capital Government Income Market Poor
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Advantage Civil Economics Knowledge Man Requirement
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Choose Decide Information Inspirational People Public
Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Character Management Racism Record Time
No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame

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