What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
THOMAS SOWELLMuch 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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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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