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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Thomas Sowell

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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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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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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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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

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