Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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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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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 fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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