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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

Thomas Sowell

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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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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Doer Specialty Talker
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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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Ending Equality Freedom Society
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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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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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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

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