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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Thomas Sowell

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

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