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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Thomas Sowell

The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Case God Identity Mistake Remember Trouble
Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Confidence Inspirational Possible Trust Wrong
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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Acceptance Education Ideas Intelligence People Virtue
Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Cause Economics Economy Effect Relationship Study
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Consequences Contribution Economics People Politics Society
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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
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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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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