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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.

Thomas Sowell

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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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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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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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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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 use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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