Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
THOMAS SOWELLFor the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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