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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Brain Human Nature People Repetition Scary
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Honesty Sarcastic Truth
The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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Confuse Feelings Problem Reading Thinking Trouble
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
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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Acceptance Education Ideas Intelligence People Virtue
Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Alternative Choas Government Imagination People Planning
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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Destroy People Responsiblity Role Society Vision
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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Born Ignorant People Stupidity
It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Believe Judgement Play Racism Rule Standard

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