We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
THOMAS SOWELLLife does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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