Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
THOMAS SOWELLIt has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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