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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.

Thomas Sowell

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Liar People Politics Reflection Satisfaction Shame
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Achievement Century History Ideas Kill Power
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Disastrous Ideas Reality Social Wonderful
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Argument Extrapolation Ground Refuge
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Intelligance One Liner Philosophy Politics Smart Thinking
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 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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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 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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.

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