Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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