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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.

Thomas Sowell

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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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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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 is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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