Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELLThe 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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 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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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