Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
THOMAS SOWELL
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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 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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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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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