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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 Sowell

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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Decide Deserve God Role
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
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.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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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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Character Management Racism Record Time

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.

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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.

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