Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELLWhen people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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 most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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