Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
THOMAS SOWELLI 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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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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.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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 has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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