For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
THOMAS SOWELLFor the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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 in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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What 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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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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