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Thomas Sowell

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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