Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
THOMAS SOWELLIt’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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